Motherboards with i845 Chipsets

manplusdog writes: "Dan reviews a couple of i845 motherboards here and lets just say he doesn't hold back! "Mainboards For The Stupid" is the verdict. I have no affiliation with Dan or his site (aside from being Australian) but found the review..... entertaining. Cheers"

Comments

Re:Yawn..

[Arker]

Why would any self respecting slashdot reader not opt for a DDR Athlon??

Well there's a couple reasons I can think of. First off you might be looking to upgrade an Intel board you got for free *cough* but in that case you wouldn't be buying one of these motherboards. :)

The second reason would be thermal protection. Intel build a little thermometre into their chips, along with some circuitry that'll turn the sucker off in case the temperature goes way over where it should be. Which isn't such a huge thing, if you use proper cooling it shouldn't matter, but in some cases it's probably worth thinking about.

If you do get an Athlon, be sure and cool it properly. They'll keep processing till they burst into flames... :)

Trivia

[Daniel Rutter]

Howdy. Page mine. Server looks fine to me. Site hosted in USA, not here in Australia. So if you can't see it, not my fault. And I can get my mail just fine, thanks :-).

On a more interesting note, I put that review up on the 30th of August, which was while motherboard manufacturers were still getting busted for even saying that they'd shipped i845 boards, because the chipset hadn't officially been launched yet.

But here in Australia, for some reason, the boards were already being sold retail. I just grabbed those two from m'verygoodfriends at Aus PC Market.

I should probably update the review; I bet Abit and Asus have product pages for those boards, now :-).