In news Curt typed:
Hello Again,

As you can tell from the subject header, my question
relates to Intel Legacy boards. My Intel D865PERL board
finally died, (several bulging/leaking capacitors), on me
after a long and useful service life. The hardware and
peripherals used on it are still solid.
In wanting to maintain as similar a system to the 865PERL
as possible, I've run across the D875PBZ board that
appears to exist in 2 versions...the 875 and the i875
chipset.
I've googled, gone to the Intel site and read many forum
threads about the D875PBZ. For the life of me I cannot
figure if there are any significant differences between
the 875 and i875 chips. I'm assuming, (yeah, yeah I know
what they say about assuming), the i875 chip is superior
here.
If the 875PBZ was state-of-the-art today, and other than
being the latest/greatest what would make you choose the
i875 chipset over it's brother, the 875?

Hardware and peripherals:

p4 3ghz HT cpu
1 250gb sata hd
1 500gb sata hd
1 1tb external hd
21/2gb pc3200 ddr memory
ati 9200 128mb vid-card
hp 2009m monitor
2 sata optical drives
1 external optical drive
lexmark x4650 all-in-one
1 rocketfish 5.1 sound card
1 front panel floppy/media card reader
1 pci add-in card for sata optical drives
1 pci add-in card for front panel floppy/media card reader
4 120mm case fans
430 watt psu

OS will be XP updated to SP3. Any and all thoughts are
welcomed.
Thanks,

Curt.

Dumb question: If the problem is bloated 'lytics, why not just replace them
with good ones or find someone who can do it for you? 'Lytics are simple to
change out.

HTH,

Twayne`