Recommend me a P4 motherboard

Soldato
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Here is the following criteria:

P4 2.5Ghz
2 x 512mb DDR

On Board...
LAN
6 channel Audio
1/2 decent graphics (not essential)

It must have either PCI-E (& O/B GFX) or AGP.

My customer also requires 5 IDE channels so I was thinking of adding a PCI IDE card too.

Or would it be possible to convert the HDD's to SATA and buy a motherboard with SATA?
 
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We can only recommend stuff on OCUK, and you won't find a P4 mobo.

Your prolly find something on a UK site, but I doubt you'll have much choice.
 
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The items below fit the bill. You need to remember that getting a P4 Skt478 mobo is going to be hard now as no-one makes them anymore so you can only get stock which is old & been on the shelf for a while.

**B Grade** Epox EP-4PDA3I v3.x Intel 865PE (Socket 478) AGP Motherboard (MB-052-EP)
EPoX uses the Intel i865PE + ICH5 controller to serve the Socket 478 platform. This EP-4PDA3I is equipped with 2/6 channel sound, an 10/100 Ethernet controller, 2x SATA and eight USB 2.0 ports.

- Full ATX form Factor Mainboard with Legacy PS/2, Serial, Parallel & Game Port
- 4 DIMM sockets for upto 4GB of memory
- 1 x AGP 8x Slot
- 5 x PCI Slots for 33Mhz 32bit periperal devices
- Two S-ATA ports with up to 150MBps bandwidth from ICH5
- Onboard Realtek ALC-65x selectable 2 or 6-CH audio
- Eight USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 (backwards compatible with USB 1.1 devices)
- 100Mb Fast Ethernet from onboard Realtek RTL8100C controller
- Smartfan™ function for noise / temperature control of CPU cooler
- P80P onboard diagnostics module
- Power BIOS functionality for access to EPoX''s legendary overclocking technology
Originally sold at £25.00+VAT
Price: £25.00 (£29.38 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Abit Serillel 2 (HD-000-AB)
With this simple device, you can upgrade your IDE hard drive so that it can be used on a Serial ATA connection. If using a Silicon Image SATA controller, you can also convert your optical drives to run on the SATA ports.
Full Specification
Price: £12.95 (£15.22 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Highpoint Rocket133 2 Channel ATA Host Adaptor (CC-015-HP)
The Rocket133 Host Adapter is a dual channel IDE controller card designed for use with ATA133 hard disk drives. The Rocket133 supports high speed transfer rates up to 133MB/s, as well as providing parallel access to it''s two, independent, ATA channels. The Rocket133 2 ATA channels combine to support up to 4 hard disk drives. The Rocket 133 Host Adapter breaks the current interface standard''s hard disk drive capacity limitations, and supports hard drives larger than 137GB.
Full Specification
Price: £18.50 (£21.74 Including VAT at 17.5%)
 
Soldato
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Tesla said:
Many thanks.

I was not aware that products that OcUK do not sell can not be recommended.
Read the FAQS. They only pay for these forums bandwidth to discuss their own products.
 
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