First post, by w32u
Hello everyone, recently I saw that someone sold some "useless" PC parts, like (not so much, good for paint job) rusty ATX case and Asus P5P800 SE motherboard with stock IDE cables, unknown CPU and 3.5 HDD drive bay for 5.25 slot.
The thing is that that's all costs cheaper than a PCI Gigabit network card, and this motherboard has gigabit networking supported in Windows 98, so it will be more efficient to buy the lot with motherboard, although I seldom use ethernet connection on such an old system, it will be a nice bonus for me.
So, as I've said before, it has an unknown processor, and I have Pentium 4 531 from some MSI OEM board on 915 chipset in my collection: it's 3.0 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 84W CPU based on the Prescott architecture. Will there be any significant difference in performance between this and Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, 800 FSB based on Northwood architecture? Who's faster?
I plan to use that P5P800 SE with P4 Prescott in Windows 98, like I use my Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 with P4 Northwood. One thing to note, these boards are basically on the same chipset (865PE).
