[Wanted] Gigabyte 478 mobo

[kingchris]

Looking for 478 socket Gigabyte with at least 4 Stata ports. One ide interface. One PCI. AGP or PCI-X fine. I think most 478 are AGP.

My File Server/SQL Server is on its last legs. The six phase, CPU power daughter board supply fan, is making strange whirring noises that seem to increase with time. Could be heat related. I have cleaned and checked the fan and examined the board.

Moving exist server OSs to new mother boards involve many driver issues so another Gigabye board will be less painful.

The existing CPU is a decent 3.4 Ghz P4 and I have 3 gig of DDR ram.

Based in Houghton Joburg

Cheers

 

[R1Biker]

Why not upgrade to a cheap 775 setup?

 

[kingchris]

Thanks what I might eventually have to do but I might get lucky and find an old board. I hate having to replace mobo and CPU and memory. Would be nice to still use the CPU and memory. Intel is not doing the world any benifits with all these different sockets and ram. Ah well. Thats life.

 

[R1Biker]

Got a epox board here. no Gigabyte. Only has agp, and no sata. Good luck.

 

[CyB3rThuG]

Upgrade would be ur best bet bud, i think frontier electronic in limbro park in santon were still selling 478 boards last time i looked, was bout 1 and half years back, cant remember if they had 4 sata ports tho, think it was only 2, and it wast'n gigabyte boards either

 

[R1Biker]

Yip. I bought a msi 775 board, 2gig ram and a 3ghz cpu for R500. Just look around.

 

[kingchris]

R1Biker. Thanks. I will keep you in mind if I don't find anything else. What area are you in.

 

[kingchris]

stuartc. I shall look into your suggested company. Thanks

 

[Kuga]

AFAIK all 478 boards only have 2 SATA ports.

 

[CyB3rThuG]

cool no probs, they might be pricy, i would suggest that deal from R1Biker

stuartc. I shall look into your suggested company. Thanks

 

[Oj0]

I doubt you'll find a PCI-X socket 478 consumer grade board, but you seem keen on PCI-X - do you have a card you'd be willing to sell?

You seem to misunderstand something. None of the drivers used are Gigabyte drivers. You'll find you may have components from Marvell, Realtek, Intel, S3, SiS... Going from a Gigabyte board to any other brand with the same components will mean no driver issues, going from one Gigabyte board to another (even from the same generation - you might find three almost-identical boards have different network controllers) which uses different components is going to mean driver hell.

 

[SilvRav]

Cud buddy - YGPM re quad core setup

 

[el3venth]

Just to be pedantic. You will not find a 478 board with PCI-x. Maybe PCI-e but the server motherboards that use PCI-x are very few and far between.

 

[BuNNy]

I have a 478 board with pci X. Think its msi

 

[BuNNy]

False alarm.. Its pci-e

 

[kingchris]

Well. AGP is fine as the existing board is AGP and I have three AGP Nvidia Cards. The PCI-X was a long shot. The server dosen't have a permanent screen anyway it has a console switch to share a screen with a true HP server

 

[kingchris]

Closed. Thanks for all the info gentlemen.