P4P800 suggestions

[David Shorthouse]

I am contemplating this board and am soliciting opinions and support. My top
priorities are stability, quiet operation, and the ability to suspend to RAM
and WOL without issue, in that order. Here's my proposed set-up:

P4P800
P4 2.4GHz with HT enabled (OC to 3GHz)
Zalman 7000 AlCu flower (does it fit on this board with its large, passive
Northbridge cooler?)
ATI AIW 7500 with passive heatsink
2X 256MB PC3200 (what brands work best for dual channel and does the DDR
voltage need to be bumped up for stability as is the case with some of the
Abit boards?)
Antec Sonata case with front 120mm fan
WD Raptor with OS and applications
Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA

Does this board come with power and SATA cables for the above 2 drives?

Thanks,

Dave

 

[Philip Callan]

I am contemplating this board and am soliciting opinions and support. My top
priorities are stability, quiet operation, and the ability to suspend to RAM
and WOL without issue, in that order. Here's my proposed set-up:

P4P800
P4 2.4GHz with HT enabled (OC to 3GHz)
Zalman 7000 AlCu flower (does it fit on this board with its large, passive
Northbridge cooler?)
ATI AIW 7500 with passive heatsink
2X 256MB PC3200 (what brands work best for dual channel and does the DDR
voltage need to be bumped up for stability as is the case with some of the
Abit boards?)
Antec Sonata case with front 120mm fan
WD Raptor with OS and applications
Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA

Does this board come with power and SATA cables for the above 2 drives?

Thanks,

Dave

I have the P4C800-E Deluxe and it came with a SATA power adaptor,
and 4 SATA cables, 1 floppy and 2 IDE cables)

For RAM, I got the Kingston (not ValueRAM) 1Gig PC3200 kit, when
buying dual channel RAM, its best to buy the 2 stick packages, not trying to
mix-match (even the same vendor)

And, as luck would have it, the Antec Sonata is the case I bought, its
sweet,
I dont need the front 120mm, found its great at keeping temps well within
range
and the TrueBlue380w that comes with it is great (ignore your BIOS if it
says your
PSU fan is broken, it's SUPPOSED to run at around 1800rpm until it gets
above 45C)

Nice and quiet, super shiny (although the front panel usb/firewire work good
w/ the Sonata
case, you'll find that the plugs for the FP_AUDIO header make you use the 7
single-wire
attachment, as the Sonata reverses 2 of the wires in the 10-pin plug thats
on the front panels
audio cable)

Havent used WOL (no network at home yet) but STR is ok, I've had it standby,
no problems
and hibernated it for 2 days once and it fired up no sweat, no problems.

 

[Armin Pfeffer]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:21:28 GMT, "David Shorthouse"

P4P800 ....
Dave

...
It's going to standby / resume ok, but only after you eliminate the
Smax4 exe that is loaded under HKLM\Software\<Microsoft\Current
Version\RUn
I had to do this according to and advice from this newsgroup using the
3583 or 3630 version of the analog devices drivers for the SoundMax
1985 onboard sound.

HTH
Armin