The Prescott Pentium D 2.86 GHz CPU was the last of the Socket 478 CPUs produced by Intel under the Pentium brand name (Celeron D CPUs persisted a bit longer). Subsequent Pentium IV-family CPUs used the LGA 775 socket to mate to the motherboard. Compatible motherboards for the Pentium D family are those that use the socket 478 layout; a Pentium D will work on an older socket 478 motherboard, but will not work in later LGA 775 motherboards.
Intel D865GLC Motherboard
This motherboard has support for four DDR DIMM sockets, and supports motherboard bus speeds of 400, 533 and 800 MHz front side bus speeds. It has 8 USB 2.0 ports, a single serial port, a parallel port for connecting to legacy printers, and two SATA hard drive connection points, as well as two ATA-66/100 hard drive connectors. It has an onboard network connection (Ethernet) chipset. For expansion ports, it has six PCI slots and one AGP slot that can support an 8x AGP video card, in addition to basic on-board-graphics capabilities.
MSI 945GCM478-L Motherboard
This motherboard, produced by MSI, has support for front side bus speeds up to 800 MHz, and has both ATA and SATA hard drive ports. It can support up to two RAM chips of DDR2 SDRAM, to a maximum of 4 GB. It has an onboard networking adapter, Intel integrated graphics, and onboard sound, along with 4 USB 2.0 ports. It has the usual selection of serial, parallel and PS/2 ports appropriate to the mid-2000s, before USB 2.0 largely rendered them obsolete. The motherboard has two PCI slots and one PCI Express slot, with the latter largely replacing the ATX video card slot for most users.
ASUS P4S333-VM Motherboard
This motherboard from ASUS has two DIMM slots, and can handle up to two 2 GB chips of DDR SDRAM. It has one AGP 4x slot for video cards, and three PCI slots for future expansion, and has two USB 2.0 ports and a header for adding two additional USB 2.0 connectors. It also has legacy PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, and parallel and serial ports, as well as a built in networking card. It only has IDE ports for connecting hard drives, which makes it one of the last Pentium IV motherboards without onboard SATA ports (which are significantly faster data transfer paths).
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