GA - 8VT800

[starcraftmaster]

hey i got a GA - 8VT800

says on the giga byte web site it can support 800 mhz intel pentium 4

can it support any higher speeds

and any one got this mother board if u do is it a good one

[CoffeeFiend]

It's an older board:

-Socket 478, not 775 -- it's been a LOT of years since I've seen a socket 478 CPU in any store, so you'd need to find one second hand. Supports P4's with a 800 MHz FSB up to 3.4 GHz.

-it takes old DDR which costs more than DDR2

-old AGP 8x slot (no PCI-E) for they don't really make new vid cards for anymore (again, 2nd hand might be your best bet)

...

Anyways. It's a fairly typical older P4 board. I wouldn't spend a dime on something that old personally. Especially when a LOT of motherboards from that era are known to have bad caps.

[starcraftmaster]

Old Caps??

[puntoMX]

Yup, with the "Capacitor plague"