Intel D101GGC Mobo

[Jesse]

Hi,

I am in the planning stages of my next build. This will be an HD capable sagetv client for our plasma.

Right now the intel P4 Cedar Mill cpu's seem to offer great bang for the buck so I have decided to go with the 3.0g version. I usually like to use an intel mobo when using an intel cpu in an effort to get maximum stability (around here stability equals high WAF ). Because cost is a bigger issue than normal on this build I am considering the intel D101GGC mobo. At $68.00 from newegg I guess you could say this is just about the bottom of the line board from them. It uses standard (ie cheap) DDR SDRAM and has one PCI-X 16 slot for a nice modern vid card. What worries me is that there is no support for dual channel memory, and the board uses an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset rather than an intel chipset. Just wondering if this thing will be as stable as an intel board with an intel chipset and how well the ATI chipset will play with a 7600GT vid card?

Anyone have any experience with this board?

TIA

J

[up2ng]

I have a ATI chipset (2.4Ghz p4) w/GeForce 6200 AGP card (HDTV Composite out) with 1 Gb Dual Channel (2x512mb) and they play fine with each other. When you put a video card in the onboard will be disabled.

Whenever you see memory slots that are 2 different colors, that means they are dual channel. Just put one mem chip in each color.

[Jesse]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. Are you actually using this board?

TIA

Jesse

[michelkenny]

Originally Posted by up2ng

Whenever you see memory slots that are 2 different colors, that means they are dual channel. Just put one mem chip in each color.

Just to clarify, you want to put a memory stick in each same color in order to take advantage of the dual channel (eg. if you have blue-brown-blue-brown, use both blue slots).