Final Configuration ( I think )

Hi guys

Well, after mulling over advice from people on various newsgroups etc I
think I have narrowed down some more what I will be buying..but still would
like advice on it lol!

I have now bought the motherboard, which is a P4S800 using the SiS468FX
Chipset. I have heard nothing but great things about this board, even for
it;s price range. For now I will stick with my GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
until maybe NV40 shows its face, I refuse to touch an FX card and Catalyst
should be enough to put anyone off a Radeon.

I have noticed suddenly that the prices on the 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8 P4's are
dropping like there is no tommorow. I was hoping to get a 2.8, and now that
it will only set me back £168 I think this is pretty much decided. I would
like to know though, are these prices dropping due to the pre-emptive
release of the prescott CPU? If so does anyone have a clue when it will be
out as this motherboard is apparently precott ready so would like to
possibly stick one in at some point.

99% of this PC's usage wil be games, so will I really notice a difference
between 512MB DDR and 1024MB DDR?? Wuill the difference be worth the ocst,
or do you reckon that really is more down to persoanl opinion - I cant help
feeling I should go for 1GB of RAM for the "just because I can " approach,
but I have heard sometimes too much RAM starts slowing things down, so want
to check first

All and any help greatly appreciated

Daniel
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"Daniel Yates" <spamkill@spambutty.net> wrote in message
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> Well, after mulling over advice from people on various newsgroups etc I
> think I have narrowed down some more what I will be buying..but still
would
> like advice on it lol!

:-)

> I have now bought the motherboard, which is a P4S800 using the SiS468FX
> Chipset. I have heard nothing but great things about this board, even for
> it;s price range.

For budget type boards, if you can call it that based on the price, I'd go
for the 865 chipset boards. I believe Asus makes one or two, or three.

> For now I will stick with my GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
> until maybe NV40 shows its face, I refuse to touch an FX card and Catalyst
> should be enough to put anyone off a Radeon.

Really? I find the ATI Radeon and the Catalyst drivers extremely stable.
They really don't hiccup in anything. I think they are 3.7 or 3.8 driver
release now.

> I have noticed suddenly that the prices on the 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8 P4's are
> dropping like there is no tommorow. I was hoping to get a 2.8, and now
that
> it will only set me back £168 I think this is pretty much decided. I would
> like to know though, are these prices dropping due to the pre-emptive
> release of the prescott CPU?

Yes, probably the upcoming release of Prescott this year, and the 3.2Ghz P4
Extreme Gamers Edition CPU, which is supposed to have 1 or 2 MBs of L2
cache.

> If so does anyone have a clue when it will be
> out as this motherboard is apparently precott ready so would like to
> possibly stick one in at some point.

I'd skip it. The Prescott will be a level above P4s, yet look at the prices
of a 3.2Ghz P4. I don't think there will be anything budget-like about the
Prescott CPUs.

> 99% of this PC's usage wil be games, so will I really notice a difference
> between 512MB DDR and 1024MB DDR??

I don't think so, no. Going from 256 to 512, yes, but above 512 for games I
don't think you'll see a terrific difference at all.


> Wuill the difference be worth the ocst,

Definitely not. It would be worth it if you knew you'd run applications
that would make use of the extra RAM, i.e. Oracle, Photoshop, development
tools, etc.

> or do you reckon that really is more down to persoanl opinion

That too.

> - I cant help
> feeling I should go for 1GB of RAM for the "just because I can " approach,

Well, I wouldn't burn your money like that. I'd save your money and maybe
upgrade the video card to a Radeon 9600 Pro or Radon 9800 Non-Pro.

> but I have heard sometimes too much RAM starts slowing things down, so
want
> to check first

Slowing things down? Not that I heard of. I have 4GBs and believe me,
nothing is slow.

@drian.

Basically in a computer,an application,program,game, ect.,
is loaded into memory. The cpu then uses these instructions and executes. If
your program is larger than the available memory then the cpu has to access
the hard drive(virtual memory) for what it needs. HDD access is very slow
compared to memory. MORE MEMORY!!!
"Daniel Yates" <spamkill@spambutty.net> wrote in message
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> Hi guys
>
> Well, after mulling over advice from people on various newsgroups etc I
> think I have narrowed down some more what I will be buying..but still
would
> like advice on it lol!
>
> I have now bought the motherboard, which is a P4S800 using the SiS468FX
> Chipset. I have heard nothing but great things about this board, even for
> it;s price range. For now I will stick with my GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8X
AGP
> until maybe NV40 shows its face, I refuse to touch an FX card and Catalyst
> should be enough to put anyone off a Radeon.
>
> I have noticed suddenly that the prices on the 2.4, 2.6 and 2.8 P4's are
> dropping like there is no tommorow. I was hoping to get a 2.8, and now
that
> it will only set me back £168 I think this is pretty much decided. I would
> like to know though, are these prices dropping due to the pre-emptive
> release of the prescott CPU? If so does anyone have a clue when it will be
> out as this motherboard is apparently precott ready so would like to
> possibly stick one in at some point.
>
> 99% of this PC's usage wil be games, so will I really notice a difference
> between 512MB DDR and 1024MB DDR?? Wuill the difference be worth the ocst,
> or do you reckon that really is more down to persoanl opinion - I cant
help
> feeling I should go for 1GB of RAM for the "just because I can " approach,
> but I have heard sometimes too much RAM starts slowing things down, so
want
> to check first
>
> All and any help greatly appreciated
>
> Daniel
> --
> Your only jealous because the voices are talking to me
>
> Reply e-mail is a full spamtrap - please reply in group
>
>