Intel D875PBZLK

[Sandog]

Cool! Not sure you can pick up a good ol' D875PBZLK Canterwood any longer.

[ronbo 613]

The old 875PBZ is still the main workhorse for my video and graphics editing. It has been trouble-free, but a new rig is on the horizon and the 875 system with it's 3.7TB of hard drives is destined to become a Linux server.

[Afty]

Just wanted to drop in and say that I'm still running my D875PBZ/P4-2.8C rig as my primary machine. I have the itch to upgrade to a nice Core 2 Duo or Quad, but to be honest this machine still does everything I need it to do. Also, I wanted to build my next machine on the P43/45 chipset, but the Intel P43 motherboard (DP43TF) isn't available anywhere. So I'll keep waiting...

[bajo]

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[dedeque]

Originally Posted by Sandog

Cool! Not sure you can pick up a good ol' D875PBZLK Canterwood any longer.

I All,
I'm Happy to see this thread is now a sticky. I have been reading this thread from day one for 2-3 years.

Today I put my D875PBZLK on craigslist in the Bay Area...

It's a peace of this forum because I bought it from Sandog... in 2004.
I thing it was his last one. A revision 303 with a home made heat sink on the southbridge.

It was my gaming machine for 2-3 years and my HTPC for the last 2 years. It was paired with good memory, a P4 3.4 Northwood and a NVidia 6800GT.

I'll add picture soon for the good memories…

Thanks you.

[ftp1234]

Hi, I got a free D875PBZ based PC from my friend. It has only 512MB RAM though. I plan to upgrade it to 2GB (2X1GB DIMMs).

Does this mobo accept high density RAM (128Mx4 chips)(16 chips per module)
OR
does this mobo MUST have low density RAM (64Mx8 chips)(16 chips per module)?

Thanks

[Brian]

Originally Posted by ftp1234

Hi, I got a free D875PBZ based PC from my friend. It has only 512MB RAM though. I plan to upgrade it to 2GB (2X1GB DIMMs).

Does this mobo accept high density RAM (128Mx4 chips)(16 chips per module)
OR
does this mobo MUST have low density RAM (64Mx8 chips)(16 chips per module)?

Thanks

This is the RAM I have in my D875PBZ and it has been working flawlessly. I did have to loosen the timings a tad to make it work at the default voltage (because I'm a scaredy cat and don't like to muck around with my voltages) but with 81% of the 1300 people at Newegg who have reviewed it giving it 5 out of 5, I really don't think you can go wrong.

And yes, I know, I did not answer your question about density.


Link below:


OCZ Platinum 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 Dual Channel Kit

[dZeus]

Hi all,

still using this board in my main workstation, running MS Vista with 4GB ECC RAM and a HD3650 AGP 512MB videocard. However, after switching to vista and upgrading the RAM and videocard I started noticing that hibernation doesn't work in vista any more!

When I hibernate or go to hybrid sleep, all seems well as the PC writes the hibernation file and switches off. However, when I want to resume from the hibernation file, I instead get the Windows boot menu asking me wether I want to start up normally or safe mode because of an "unexpected shutdown".

If I go to hybrid sleep (or regular sleep) and resume from S3 (i.e. without cutting the power on purpose), all goes well. In windows XP with a different vidcard and 2GB RAM, hibernation used to work fine too.

Do others have this problem in Vista?

I suspect it's due to the large amount of RAM + the 512MB videocard, as 3.5 GB RAM is available for programs/windows, while many sites on the internet claim that the videoram + bios/memory of devices needs to fit in the area above the allocatable RAM and below 4GB; this doesn't seem to make sense on my system as that area is just 512MB, which should only cover the videocard RAM.

[dZeus]

Originally Posted by dZeus

Hi all,

still using this board in my main workstation, running MS Vista with 4GB ECC RAM and a HD3650 AGP 512MB videocard. However, after switching to vista and upgrading the RAM and videocard I started noticing that hibernation doesn't work in vista any more!

When I hibernate or go to hybrid sleep, all seems well as the PC writes the hibernation file and switches off. However, when I want to resume from the hibernation file, I instead get the Windows boot menu asking me wether I want to start up normally or safe mode because of an "unexpected shutdown".

If I go to hybrid sleep (or regular sleep) and resume from S3 (i.e. without cutting the power on purpose), all goes well. In windows XP with a different vidcard and 2GB RAM, hibernation used to work fine too.

Do others have this problem in Vista?

I suspect it's due to the large amount of RAM + the 512MB videocard, as 3.5 GB RAM is available for programs/windows, while many sites on the internet claim that the videoram + bios/memory of devices needs to fit in the area above the allocatable RAM and below 4GB; this doesn't seem to make sense on my system as that area is just 512MB, which should only cover the videocard RAM.

an update on the above issue:
I've tried some things, all to no avail!
- removed 2GB RAM out of 4GB total
- swapped videocard with two different ones: 256MB ATI HD2400Pro, 64MB Matrox P650
- removed soundcard
- disabled all non-MS services and all startup programs

I'm completely out of ideas what might be causing this! Only things I haven't removed yet are my pioneer DVR-104 dvd-burner and Samsung 200GB SATA HDD. Oh, and I run with bitlocker enabled in vista.

Might try Windows 7 beta on another partition to see how that one fares with hibernation.

Oh, and I noticed that with the Matrox P650 64MB videoram, the D875PBZ allowed me to use 3965MB in Vista! Must be the motherboard with the best x86 4GB support out there (if the hibernation issue is unrelated).

[dZeus]

Originally Posted by dZeus

an update on the above issue:
I've tried some things, all to no avail!
- removed 2GB RAM out of 4GB total
- swapped videocard with two different ones: 256MB ATI HD2400Pro, 64MB Matrox P650
- removed soundcard
- disabled all non-MS services and all startup programs

I'm completely out of ideas what might be causing this! Only things I haven't removed yet are my pioneer DVR-104 dvd-burner and Samsung 200GB SATA HDD. Oh, and I run with bitlocker enabled in vista.

Might try Windows 7 beta on another partition to see how that one fares with hibernation.

Oh, and I noticed that with the Matrox P650 64MB videoram, the D875PBZ allowed me to use 3965MB in Vista! Must be the motherboard with the best x86 4GB support out there (if the hibernation issue is unrelated).

this hibernation issue was fixed by installing the Catalyst 9.6 AGP hotfix drivers for Vista x86

[mcmd]

Originally Posted by dZeus

this hibernation issue was fixed by installing the Catalyst 9.6 AGP hotfix drivers for Vista x86

Thanks for taking the time to post DZeus! I *still* frequent this thread after all these years!

[tkbalt]

I still have 3 of these boards out there. Forgot - can I run 4 sticks of memory - seem to recall you could only use 2...........

[PSTEF]

I need to replace one of the SATA drives on my 875 board. Are the newer 3.00Gbps drives backward compatable to 1.5Gbps standard?

Does anyone know if the controller on the board is capable of running the 3.00Gbps standard drives (bios update, if possible)?

[bajo]

Should be backwards compatible, not sure about 2nd question (probably not capable of full 3.0), see Intel latest drivers... Also, some drives have a small jumper that switches between 3.0 and 1.5. for backward compat. Check the hd drives' webs for info.
It may also depend on your os.