need help with motherboards

Ok i'm looking for a motherboard that supports;
DDR RAM
1.7 p4 Ghz cpu
8x AGP slot

I have no idea whats what so can someone please assist me with this and i would be very grateful.

Socket 423 or 478? I think you can get both types for this processor...

I think Pentium stopped distributing socket 423 processors a while back.

How do I find out its socket?

Go on www.directron.com and browse their motherboards available and stuff like that. Also, go to local computer hardware stores and find out what they can sell then find out if the board if for you.

Things to look out for are:

If it will support your processor
what type of RAM it supports and at what speed
integrated LAN or sound (keep in mind that integrated sound inst a bad thing, I actually like it alot)
Does it support your hard drive (should be a problem an less you have a SATA Hard drive)

Kage_Prototype said:
I think Pentium stopped distributing socket 423 processors a while back.

Yes they did, but my psychic powers tell me he may already have a processor that may or not be that old :wink:

Anyways I guess you can find out either from still having the original boxes/manual for it or knowing what motherboard you currently have and looking it up, or even checking the processor directly and looking on the Intel website... I don't think your bus speed/cache can help determine it :/

Leperous said:

Kage_Prototype said:
I think Pentium stopped distributing socket 423 processors a while back.

Yes they did, but my psychic powers tell me he may already have a processor that may or not be that old :wink:

Anyways I guess you can find out either from still having the original boxes/manual for it or knowing what motherboard you currently have and looking it up, or even checking the processor directly and looking on the Intel website... I don't think your bus speed/cache can help determine it :/

Thanks lep, you must have powerful psychic powers I tell you because you are right!

845 chipset
478 socket

Do they still sell motherboards that support that?

Edit: I found a motherboard that supports a 478 socket but what does the chipset mean?

A chipset is on the motherboard, basically it tells everything where to go.

The processor sends and recieves data through the bus to memory, the processor thinks everything is memory. In between the memory and the processor is the chipset, it used to be the iosubsystem and was the size of a brick.

The processor sends the chipset an address in memory and when it's writting it sends data as well, the chipset checks that address in memory, if it's valid it does it's stuff, if it is invalid, it checks to see if that block is being used by something else such as your video card or your harddrive and it sends the data accordingly.

By the way, your chipset is more important then your processor its really the 'brains' the processor is pretty much a slave which thinks it's king. In fact, it doesn't even know anything else exsists in the entire computer except memory.

Just some hardware facts. Hope it helps.

Crono said:
A chipset is on the motherboard, basically it tells everything where to go.

The processor sends and recieves data through the bus to memory, the processor thinks everything is memory. In between the memory and the processor is the chipset, it used to be the iosubsystem and was the size of a brick.

The processor sends the chipset an address in memory and when it's writting it sends data as well, the chipset checks that address in memory, if it's valid it does it's stuff, if it is invalid, it checks to see if that block is being used by something else such as your video card or your harddrive and it sends the data accordingly.

By the way, your chipset is more important then your processor its really the 'brains' the processor is pretty much a slave which thinks it's king. In fact, it doesn't even know anything else exsists in the entire computer except memory.

Just some hardware facts. Hope it helps.

Thank you! Very helpful indeed.