Price Guide, December 2005: Motherboards
by Haider Farhan on December 4, 2005 4:22 PM EST- Posted in
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More Intel Motherboards
Since our last guide, the boards featuring the nForce4 SLI chipset have stayed about the same price. The cheapest one that we’re seeing is the MSI nForce4 SLI P4N SLI-FI [RTPE: P4N SLI-FI] going for about $124.
The boards featuring the 915G chipset are still available for really low prices. If you’re looking at going with a basic setup, something like this may be ideal.
Since our last guide, the boards featuring the nForce4 SLI chipset have stayed about the same price. The cheapest one that we’re seeing is the MSI nForce4 SLI P4N SLI-FI [RTPE: P4N SLI-FI] going for about $124.
The boards featuring the 915G chipset are still available for really low prices. If you’re looking at going with a basic setup, something like this may be ideal.
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Beenthere - Monday, December 5, 2005 - link
It would be very telling to have an honest survey that indicates how often people buy a new Mobo. I'm sure there are gamers and speed junkies that buy a new Mobo every chance they can but I doubt the majority of PC enthusiasts run out and buy the latest and greatest Mobo, CPU, memory, PSU, heatsink, etc. every time a new model comes out. And for those who do buy a new Mobo, CPU, memory, etc. every couple months, what do you do with the old hardware??? Hopefully it's given to someone who can put it to good use???xtremejack - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
A while back I was waiting for 975x, because it would support Pressler *and* Conroe. Now it looks like it will not. If there will a single motherboard supporting both Yonah and Conroe, then I am gonna jump for mobo+Yonah for sure. Far better looking option than Presslerkilkennycat - Monday, December 5, 2005 - link
Your wish is likely to go wanting. You can bet that Intel will change CPU pinouts and profiles as often as possible to sell more high-end chip-sets and motherboards, just as they have done with Yonah and the Pentium-M. Exactly the same number of pins, but physically incompatible !! Intel is not sinking all that new money in chip-set plants for nothing. A would-be monopolist in marketing fancy-dress. Grrrr............More power to the AMD lawsuit.IntelUser2000 - Monday, December 5, 2005 - link
975X WILL support Conroe, except not on the initial batches, just like Prescott and 865/875 times.Yonah's desktop chipset is called 945GT so look for that.
KristopherKubicki - Monday, December 5, 2005 - link
The chipset can support it, but the socket is different.Kristopher
imaheadcase - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
It can't come fast enough, i want to order that one for sure :Dkilkennycat - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
..... hard to get, therefore omitted ??rrcn - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
The A8N32-SLI is http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=A8N32-SLI">showing up on the RTPE as preorder only. Anything on preorder will not show up on the charts in our guides.kilkennycat - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link
Thanks for the clarification. They have been actually shipping from Newegg and ZipZoomFly for the past month (no pre-orders are accepted at either vendor) but each batch sells out almost immediately.