hello again people, the time has come for me to finally get round to replacing my fried motherboard. Last time I did this I had no problems buying a new motherboard....this time it appears that they have vanished from the face of the earth....outdated I assume.

please help! ... what is all this socket 478 chipset 865pe business? the motherboard in there at the moment is a Gigabyte P4 titan GA-81PE1000-G rev.4 (http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/Mo...ProductID=1863) this says 865pe and socket 478. I seem to be able to find motherboards that tell me they are compatible with pentium 4 processors but they are different chipset numbers .... does this matter? and why? lol ... totally confused

Virtual Patient