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Intel D850EMV2L Pentium 4 Motherboard

D850EMV2L Pentium 4 Motherboard

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Intel D850EMV2L Pentium 4 Motherboard

  • Reviewed by: ychilds

    06-27-08

    Duration of ownership: 5 Months

    Strengths: Plenty of expansion slots. USB 2.0 ports and onboard nic. Quality materials and design. Very fast memory.

    Weaknesses:RDRAM still expensive. Last board available before hyperthreading was released. When fully loaded requres lots of power.

    Overall Evaluation: I have this system loaded with the fasted Pentium 4 it will take (2.8 GHz with 512 KB L2 cache), 2 GB RDRAM (4-sticks), two hard drives, a floppy drive, two optical drives, high-end sound card, AGP 4x video card, and a firewire expansion card. Know that if you are running this configuration you will need a lot of power supply. I previously had a 350 watt PS and had all kinds of intermittent issues. Once I upgraded to a 550 watt PS this puppy is rock solid, fast, and handles all my work just fine. Remember back in the day this was a workstation class system used by CAD professionals. Now it works perfectly as a mid-level home system. The board installs nicely in a mid-two case and has plenty of expansion slots for special boards. Note that even today RDRAM memory is not cheap. However RDRAM memory is quite fast even to this day. You may be able to get better performance from a new Core2Duo system but you will spend hundreds more. I went with this board because I had all the parts that would work in it. Very nice board for the do-it-yourselfer.

  • Reviewed by: lizard

    10-21-02

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: Very fast with Rambus RAM and 2.26 Pentium 533 speed processor. Easy install.

    Weaknesses:Must upgrade bios on board (Intel download). WinXP won't work properly unless bios is upgraded. May have to format and reinstall WinXP after bios upgrade.

    Overall Evaluation: This motherboard is the cats meow for pushing the 533 bus Intel processors to their limit. It's easy to install into a case. The booklet from Intel is limited. But everything is so easy to do. Comes with CD software drivers and antivirus. Updated drivers available online. USB 2.0 connectors on front of board are hard to decipher. Call Intel tech support at 800 404 2284 and they are very helpful (pay support only). Hard number to find...

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