Which are the options when buying an old socket 478 motherboard for retro gaming?

[Angburmun]

I have an old P4 and I want to build a machine for retro gaming, but I don't know which motherboard I should buy. I would like to know if there are any mobos that can handle overclocking nicely without costing too much. Any help?

 

[jaslion]

I have an old P4 and I want to build a machine for retro gaming, but I don't know which motherboard I should buy. I would like to know if there are any mobos that can handle overclocking nicely without costing too much. Any help?

A p4 could if very very very lucky oc +-100mhz. So basically don't bother. Just get any random old dell or even better a core 2 based system since those still support windows xp and are dirt cheap.

 

[drkatz42]

your best bet is to go on ebay(you'll need to research each MB). don't forget those MBs will require a GPU which uses the agp interface.

 

[13thmonkey]

Is the external GPU for this machine? http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3628419/differences-exp-gdc.html

I doubt you'll get that to work on anything 'retro'.

 

[Angburmun]

I have an old P4 and I want to build a machine for retro gaming, but I don't know which motherboard I should buy. I would like to know if there are any mobos that can handle overclocking nicely without costing too much. Any help?

A p4 could if very very very lucky oc +-100mhz. So basically don't bother. Just get any random old dell or even better a core 2 based system since those still support windows xp and are dirt cheap.

I had a mobo that does not work any more and I could push my P4 1ghz without raising voltage, thats the thing

 

[13thmonkey]

why doesn't the mobo work anymore? Is it possible that these two things are related, whilst the CPU might have been happy at +1Ghz, how stressed was the board?

 

[Angburmun]

why doesn't the mobo work anymore? Is it possible that these two things are related, whilst the CPU might have been happy at +1Ghz, how stressed was the board?

It died because I broke the chipset accidentally when replacing the thermal paste.