On Saturday 06 August 2005 18:37, Rony Bill wrote:
I just got news from my supplier collegues today that P4 2.4 is no longer available and the starting point for Pentium now is P4 2.66 which is a pin-less processor and will be supported by 915 board only. Pin processors are now history.
This brings up the overall cost of the system up due to the 400 MHz RAM, SATA HDD, 400w SMPS although the dealers say 300w is ok.
Everyone, please checkup with your suppliers again.
Rony, the dealer my friend talked to must have those pieces in stock thats why he offered it. I own a P4 2.8C GHz HT 800MHz FSB (Northwood) and it works with the D865GBF Motherboard. So I guess the 2.66 that he must be talking must also work with the 845GVSR board. Though, I think the 845 board is probably a very bad performer and more suited for the celeron. Also, I recommended against buying a SATA drive since Linux doesnt support spinning down these drives like the PATA counter parts. I'll warn my friend against buying the 2.4Gig processor since intel has stopped those line of processors...