478 socket micro ATX mobo with PCI-E

ecclesk · 8 Jan 2007 at 20:10

Can any one recomend a 478 socket micro ATX mobo which has PCI-Express.

I have an old P4 rig (currenty on a standard ATX mobo)

I also have a nice micro ATX case i would like make use of, so i'm thinking get a cheap micro ATX mobo and put the P4 rig into the case, i could then use it for a media center.

i have found some 478 micro atx mobo's but none with PCI-Express?

any advice would be greatly appriciated.

Tetras · 8 Jan 2007 at 20:38

This is a possibility if you can find one:
http://www.asrock.com/product/P4Dual-915GL.htm

I think that PCI-Express slot is neutered though.

snowdog · 8 Jan 2007 at 20:59

Asus P4RD1-MX

- Support Socket 478 CPU
- ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Northbridge + ULI M1573 Southbridge
- Dual channel DDR400
- Integrated ATI RADEON X300 GPU (DirectX 9)
- PCI-Express Architecture
- 4 SATA (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD)

ecclesk · 8 Jan 2007 at 21:48

thanks guys, i was starting to think they didnt excist.

any ideas where i might find one? i have searched but nowhere seems to have them in stock.

ecclesk · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:02

I could really do with some help locating one of these, specificaly the Asrock one.

any ideas?

Tute · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:10

Anywhere suggested would most likely be a competitor.

Tetras · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:05

Aye we couldn't suggest any even if we found one... It'll be tough I'm afraid as 478 boards aren't in demand any more.

ecclesk · 10 Jan 2007 at 07:57

After days of searching i finally found both of them, (Asrock P4Dual-915GL & Asus P4RD1-MX)

Which one would you recomend? i know the Asrock has both PCI-E & AGP but apart from that is ther likely be much difference between the two,

Tetras · 10 Jan 2007 at 19:31

I'd go with the Asus, true PCI-E 16X slot unlike the neutered Asrock (the onboard graphics isn't that bad either, least not if you don't include demanding games

) and 2X IDE (for 4 devices, compared to 1X IDE for 2 devices on the Asrock).

snowdog · 10 Jan 2007 at 19:57

Aye, the asus has a ''true'' x16 pci-e slot, unline the asrock, asus has raid, asrock doesnt, asus has more ide's and I imagine an asus board clocks better and finally: the ati onboard graphics i think will be a lot better as the intel ones...

Asrock is a budget compartement of asus inc. and the true asus boards seem to be of better quality overall than the budget asrock...

Theres a 3rd option, although not a micro atx board this is an asus board wich has pci-e and agp too, pci-e only runnign @ 4x tho ( asrock 8x and asus p4rd1-vm 16x ) : asus p4v800d-x
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=942&l1=3&l2=12&l3=243
Personally i'd go for the rd1 tho, just if you cant find it or out of stock : just giving another option...

ecclesk · 11 Jan 2007 at 00:03

have ordered the Asus P4RD1-MX managed to find one!

it's the extra IDE socket that done it. as i have both sata & ide hard drives along with a DVD-rw i need 2x IDE sockets.

Theres a 3rd option, although not a micro atx board this is an asus board wich has pci-e and agp too, pci-e only runnign @ 4x tho ( asrock 8x and asus p4rd1-vm 16x ) : asus p4v800d-x
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?...=3&l2=12&l3=243
Personally i'd go for the rd1 tho, just if you cant find it or out of stock : just giving another option...

the P4 rig in question is currently runing on the mobo you mention above, a great mobo used it for my fist o/c and never had any probs.

Thanks for all the help and advice on this