ASUS P4 Motherboard Selection Question

[Todd Clayton]

If price were no object, which Asus P4 board would you get?

I think I may finally ditch AMD and bow to out Intel overlords.

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[Philip Callan]

If price were no object, which Asus P4 board would you get?

Price wasn't an object when I chose my setup (excluding vid card)

and I got the P4C800-E Deluxe for a few reasons:

800 FSB / DDR400 support
Dual Channel ram capability
Onboard Firewire & 8 USB ports was nice
SATA support
Onboard Intel Gigbit NIC w/ CSA instead of the 3com on the not -E model

I dont even use the RAID features at the moment, but havent heard anything
bad about it
(short of if you wish to mirror SATA1 to a RAID on PATA1 and SATA2 to a RAID
on PATA2,
with WinXP Pro, you need to do it at time of install)

Personally, I think a lot of the abilities of the board, I'll never use, but
the onboard firewire rules for
my wife's MiniDV camcorder, I love the SATA drives, and only have my CDRW
and DVD on IDE,
simply because SATA non-HD's are pretty scarce at the moment.

So if the P4C800 series is what your looking at, just do yourself the favor
now, and get the -E instead of the
straight P4C800

 

[DanO]

P4C800-E Deluxe - I have one and it runs great. My P4 2.4C is happily
overclocked to 3.3GHz, stock Intel HSF and stock CPU Core Voltage.

 

[sheer]

P4C800E

 

[Britt]

P4C800-E Deluxe

I just built my new system about 2 weeks ago now and I'm running that board
with the P4 2.80c processor. So far no trouble and the board has alot of
nice/extra features also. You want be disappointed in this choice.

 

[Roy Coorne]

P4C800-E Deluxe - I have one and it runs great. My P4 2.4C is happily
overclocked to 3.3GHz, stock Intel HSF and stock CPU Core Voltage.

Great! And... which RAM do you use?

Roy

 

[valued customer]

what are your bios settings?

Locust

P4C800-E Deluxe - I have one and it runs great. My P4 2.4C is happily
overclocked to 3.3GHz, stock Intel HSF and stock CPU Core Voltage.

 

[isadora]

P4T533

P4C800-E Deluxe - I have one and it runs great. My P4 2.4C is happily
overclocked to 3.3GHz, stock Intel HSF and stock CPU Core Voltage.

 

[DanO]

Mushkin Level 2 DDR433, PC3500 (2x256MB), Running at DDR433 at 2,3,2,6
timings.

 

[DanO]

Which BIOS settings? There are lots of them...

Here are the basic ones
FSB = 270
Memory = 5/4 divider
CPU Volt = Auto
Mem Volt = Auto
AGP/PCI = locked at 33/66
Memory Timings @ 2,3,2,6
PAT = Enabled
Turbo = Standard

DanO