PowerSpec Motherboard Good?

Intel Celerons were all I ever had in home computers. My first was with the very first eMachines model (T1090), and that was unbelievably slow. It (CPU) eventually crashed. My next one was an Intel Celeron D, and that was much more faster than the first one. In fact, it was about as fast as the Pentium 4HT in my current Dell GX270. But the Celeron D crashed too (motherboard this time).

Does a motherboard brand that's not commonly heard of necessarily have to be of low quality that guarantees a shorter servicespan?

BTW, why didn't they come out with a Pentium 5? Or have they abandoned all single core CPU technology for dual core?
 
Or have they abandoned all single core CPU technology for dual core?
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Yes, as a matter of fact now even quad-cores are fairly common. The only single-core CPUs out there are dual-cores with a defective core turned off, but currently Intel is not manufacturing any natively single-core designs.

BTW, why didn't they come out with a Pentium 5?
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Meh - they probably just thought it was time to change the name of their high-end lineup.
 
they abandoned the pentium 4 "netburst" design as increasing clock speeeds just wasnt working (too much heat).

The Core CPUs are actually based on a pentium 3-derived design, the Pentium M
Thats because it was a lot more energy efficient and cooler

Thats why the first Core (1) Duos were crap. They were a step back as they had no 64 bit or Virtualisation support becauase they were drrived from notebook chips.

The new Pentium Ds (not the old ones) arent pentiums at all by the way, they are low end Core2s with half the cache, kinda like the celeron was to the old pentiums
 
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