Plough
24-01-2004, 12:37 PM
A quick overview.
about 12 months ago I bought a P4 3gig cpu and the Asus P4PE mother board which the MB was a good choice at the time.
A few weeks ago we were struck by lightning and the MB was dead. No real problem as it was covered by insurance. I paid up around $250 for the mb back then when it was new.
The insurance company have sent out the P4P800s as a replacement. I was just looking at the prices for the motherboards and it seemed a little cheap ($147)
I know the P4pe is also now about that price as well but does this mb stand up to or is it better than my old one?
I was really expecting a replacment mb aroung the same cost as my old one or is that asking too much.
On a side note, my Thermaltake P4 Spark 7 copper heatsink and fan never came back with the motherboard from the insurance company, it was magically replaced with a standard intel fan.
What is even worse is that when my computer went away I was told that the HD would more than likely be formated and all data wold be lost. I expected this so after discusion with the insurance company a brand new 80gig still sealed in plastic was sent along with the computer so they could copy the data across before they deleted it. But that must of been to hard because when the computer came back once again magically all data is lost and my computer now has the new hd installed in the machine next to the old hd and the cheap bastards removed the hd cable from my removable hd caddy and used it on the new hd and did'nt even replace the cable.
Anyway back to the 2 mbs, is it a worthy replacment ?
about 12 months ago I bought a P4 3gig cpu and the Asus P4PE mother board which the MB was a good choice at the time.
A few weeks ago we were struck by lightning and the MB was dead. No real problem as it was covered by insurance. I paid up around $250 for the mb back then when it was new.
The insurance company have sent out the P4P800s as a replacement. I was just looking at the prices for the motherboards and it seemed a little cheap ($147)
I know the P4pe is also now about that price as well but does this mb stand up to or is it better than my old one?
I was really expecting a replacment mb aroung the same cost as my old one or is that asking too much.
On a side note, my Thermaltake P4 Spark 7 copper heatsink and fan never came back with the motherboard from the insurance company, it was magically replaced with a standard intel fan.
What is even worse is that when my computer went away I was told that the HD would more than likely be formated and all data wold be lost. I expected this so after discusion with the insurance company a brand new 80gig still sealed in plastic was sent along with the computer so they could copy the data across before they deleted it. But that must of been to hard because when the computer came back once again magically all data is lost and my computer now has the new hd installed in the machine next to the old hd and the cheap bastards removed the hd cable from my removable hd caddy and used it on the new hd and did'nt even replace the cable.
Anyway back to the 2 mbs, is it a worthy replacment ?