P4 LGA775 board with *DDR* support

[Stonedofmoo]

Morning all

I want to do a cheap upgrade to my PC and get one of those P4 2.66 duel core chips with the intention of overclocking it to high 3 or 4gig speeds.

However I already have 2 gig of top quality DDR RAM that overclocks beautifully and have no wish to sell it and buy DDR2

Isn't there any boards out there that supports the LGA775 format and DDR1 RAM along with PCIe and RAID etc?

Really need some help on this.

Cheers

 

[Participant]

Asrock 775 Dual-VSTA. Brill! Also supports AGP cards and has IDE ports.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Thanks, i'll take a look. Does the PCIe slot run at full 16x speed though?
I found an Asus board that had a PCIe16x slot 'that runs at 4x'

wtf

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Ah damn, it's only got 2x DDR slots and I need the full 4

Oh well, looking like this cannot be done

 

[snowdog]

Asus P5P800-SE

AGP8x
4x ddr dual channel

See:
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=1&model=629&l1=3&l2=11&l3=26

Also i think Asus p5gd1 has 4x ddr and agp8x
Asus P5GV-MX has 4x ddr and pci-e x16


There are more but i cant renember names, check out ones with intels 915 series chipset.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Needs to have PCIe mate. I already have an 875 board but sadly it's S478.

 

[snowdog]

Asus P5GV-MX


pci express
4x ddr dual channel


EDIT: hmm looks like no dual core support, ahwell, only ddr board im 100% sure of that it supports dual core is p5p800-se.
Seems u have to go ddr-2, if you do, i highly recommend get a board that supports conroes, for future upgardes...

 

[Stonedofmoo]

PCI express 4x

It's looking like this cannot be done. How frustrating!

I wouldn't mind if DDR2 was MUCH faster, but it's not is it. Not at 800FSB speeds, usually it's slower thanks to high latencies and it's another £160 I have to spend for no good reason

 

[Participant]

Give up, bite the bullet. You're not going to get a decent solution tbh as any board that satisfies in one way will let down in another. Sell the RAM and start again imo.

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Yes I think you're right. But I won't bother doing it now in that case

I've already got a P4 3.2 @ 3.5, 2gig ram and a GF6800U which plays most games on higher graphics so it's simply not worth shelling out just yet for a whole new PC

 

[snowdog]

Latency's hardly make a diff on my pc, while im on a pentium 4, and i think you should get ddr-2 anyhow as the clock speed is way more important for overclocking, as i said before, if you decide to get ddr-2: I highly recommend get a board that supports conroes, for future upgardes... ( Especially the Gigabyte ga_965_ds3 and the asus P5wdh Delx are great, asrock dual boards if you're on a budget. )


EDIT: you say 3.2 @ 3.5, i renember my 478 scott clocking to 4 ghz w/o much probs, if you need mroe speed just oc it more .
Wouldlnt recommend going from pentium 4 to pentium d, save up for a proper upgrade to a core 2 duo and upgarde when u need one, (when you cant play games on medium or something anymore.)