Intel had the brains to bring Ivy-bridge to lga 1155, which might see no end in sight. All you need is a bios update for Ivy bridge support, and basically any SB motherboard can upgrade to it.
I recently built a Celeron 1610 system for a wife of my familys friends, a 1610 /w ddr 1333, and a WD blue. After finally slipstreaming the stupid proper driver with nlite into the install (using driverpacks causes it to install, but fail to boot after its configured-probably cause of the newer revisions of the ICH8 are matching older revisions of the driver)
I've never seen XP run so fast, and for a $49 processor, its amazing. And this is a WD blue, not a black or RE. Blue /w 16M cache. Speaking of which the 1610 actually has an L3 cache. I have a feeling NCQ support by using full AHCI with the southbridge has something to do with these amazing loading times, Sata 6gb port with a 6gb WD blue and that fast cache transfer also helps.
freaking $69 board, $49 processor, $57 hard drive, already had the case. Runs so quiet. This is truly bang for your buck if you surf and email
I've also been looking into the celeron 847. MSI makes a full blown 847 board for about $79, all decent branded solid caps, ddr 1333, mini-itx. And i've seen this case before
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811108417
mounted behind monitors at the doctors office. It uses a 120w power adapter but the regulator board inside the case is all teapo, ick
with a WD black laptop drive and no cd drive (use usb adapater) still thats $249 box. These little computers are starting to impress me. I can't wait fror the ivy bridge mini itx boards to get out
wow i'm so tired i'm practically drunk. yay
I recently built a Celeron 1610 system for a wife of my familys friends, a 1610 /w ddr 1333, and a WD blue. After finally slipstreaming the stupid proper driver with nlite into the install (using driverpacks causes it to install, but fail to boot after its configured-probably cause of the newer revisions of the ICH8 are matching older revisions of the driver)
I've never seen XP run so fast, and for a $49 processor, its amazing. And this is a WD blue, not a black or RE. Blue /w 16M cache. Speaking of which the 1610 actually has an L3 cache. I have a feeling NCQ support by using full AHCI with the southbridge has something to do with these amazing loading times, Sata 6gb port with a 6gb WD blue and that fast cache transfer also helps.
freaking $69 board, $49 processor, $57 hard drive, already had the case. Runs so quiet. This is truly bang for your buck if you surf and email
I've also been looking into the celeron 847. MSI makes a full blown 847 board for about $79, all decent branded solid caps, ddr 1333, mini-itx. And i've seen this case before
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811108417
mounted behind monitors at the doctors office. It uses a 120w power adapter but the regulator board inside the case is all teapo, ick
with a WD black laptop drive and no cd drive (use usb adapater) still thats $249 box. These little computers are starting to impress me. I can't wait fror the ivy bridge mini itx boards to get out
wow i'm so tired i'm practically drunk. yay
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