freebie p4 board

[ratdude747]

today, i got an old gateway lexington board. it is a rebadged intel d850mv.

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support...pboards/d850mv

specs:

socket 478
4 rambus slots
8x agp (i think)
6 usb (4 back, 2 header)
5 pci
has 20 pin atx, p4 connector, and 5 pin thingy

it had no ram or anything, board only.

it is not one of the AA #'s that will do 533mhz fsb. bummer. i also do not have 4 rambus sticks.

it has good caps... sanyo and rubycon.

well... since the friend who gave it to me got it from a 70 year old lady, PCBONEZ, your comment/joke about a grandma with a s423 p4 and rambus was not that far off...

comments?

[yyonline]

Re: freebie p4 board

Unless you have some rambus memory lying around, it's probably not cost effective to build a system out of it. Rambus memory is crazy expensive used, and I don't even know where to get new stuff any more.

[c_hegge]

Re: freebie p4 board

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Dimension-8...item5d25ecf508 30 bucks for 1GB

[goodpsusearch]

Re: freebie p4 board

I also got an Intel Board D850MV but mine came with 256mb total Rambus ram on it.

Still, it is not enough to build a system with it.

[kc8adu]

Re: freebie p4 board

shelve it as a spare incase someone needs it.i would not spend anything to build it.i occasionaly get a request for such an oddball.

[weirdlookinguy]

Re: freebie p4 board

I had a pretty nice Gateway tower in here about a year ago with one of those boards. The system was circa 2002 iirc.

I'm with kc8adu on this one - definitely worth keeping on the shelf, but I wouldn't build a system around it.

[ratdude747]

Re: freebie p4 board

my spare rambus is in a PIII system, andc that is 2 slots of 256mb. somewhere i have a 128mb stick and a terminor caard.

i have a good psu for it if i ever had a need to build it... 300w delta, designed for a p4 of that era. has p4 and the 5 pin connection.