ASRock P4i65GV - What components?!?

peanutismint · 3 Jul 2009 at 17:24

Ready for a strange one?

Found a boxed motherboard in work - right around the time I'm thinking of building a machine for use in the office! Better specs than our other crappy work machines, for graphics editing and stuff...

So, it's an ASRock P4i65GV, which supports Intel 865GV & ICH5 chipsets - any ideas what they are? I'm guessing something along the Pentium 4 range? Any suggestions of a few cheapo components I could whack in there??? CPU/RAM I guess would be all I'd need? Gona maybe try installing OS X on there!

RJC · 3 Jul 2009 at 17:27

Here's the link to the website, socket 478 cpu you will probably look at the auction sites.

peanutismint · 3 Jul 2009 at 17:36

Hahah, oh yeah. Google is my friend....

thanks mate!

jbloggs · 3 Jul 2009 at 20:40

I have an ASRock P4i65G that I use as a file server for my SqueezeBox, have XP Pro on it with 1GB of ram, a Zyxel PCI gigabit card (with wol) and an Intel Celeron 2.2GHz, for my purpose it works well but it really is quite old tech and wouldn't want to try anything really demanding on it...even with a Northwood or Prescott Pentium on it!

peanutismint · 4 Jul 2009 at 01:02

Ooh....so you're saying it would accept a Celeron chip too? I think I have one lying around somewhere.....

jbloggs · 4 Jul 2009 at 11:44

peanutismint said:
Ooh....so you're saying it would accept a Celeron chip too? I think I have one lying around somewhere.....

- Socket 478, Intel® Pentium 4 (Northwood/Prescott) /Celeron

Yep...

jellybeard999 · 4 Jul 2009 at 18:44

865 is the lower end Intel chipset of the late 478 era, the 875 Canterwood was the better chipset. Would be fine for low end office work or home server duties.