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Pentium 4 Motherboard Shopping
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The Firing Squad has a nice review up on the ABIT TH7-RAID, ASUS P4T, Gigabyte GA-8TX, Intel D850GB, and MSI 850 Pro. The comparison rates the boards on features, performance, stability, and board layout. The run a healthy dose of benchmarks on the board and put them through a pressure test designed to test stability. Here's a snip:
With its head of the class performance, the P4T is the board to buy if you crave the fastest Pentium 4 motherboard available. This is largely due to the "RDRAM Turbo Mode" setting available in newer BIOS releases. With this setting enabled we noticed a slight (~2%) increase in our results, just enough to allow the P4T to finish first in many of our tests. On the other hand, the integrated RAID controller present on the TH7-RAID gives it a more robust feature set. We have a feeling most will go with whichever board is cheapest at their retailer of choice - quite frankly there's nothing wrong with this strategy as P4 boards sell for a considerable premium over older Pentium III products.
Grab their full review here.
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