[Q]Will the improvement be significant p4C800E and ECS 848P-A?

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redbrick

I got this motherboard free with the CPU, and dispite it's various
short-commings this motherboard has worked flawlessly. I am wondering
if purchasing the ASUS P4C800e-Deluxe would siginificantly improve the
overall performance (speed) of the system? Would this increase be
really noticible?

What do I do with my system? A little bit of everything really...
games, video encoding, simutaneous large file transfers, CAD, a little
of everything....

The system does spend a lot of time doing nothing as well...which sucks..
but I have to work for a living...

Thanks

Redbrick...who Loves his CLK
 
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Paul

I got this motherboard free with the CPU, and dispite it's various
short-commings this motherboard has worked flawlessly. I am wondering
if purchasing the ASUS P4C800e-Deluxe would siginificantly improve the
overall performance (speed) of the system? Would this increase be
really noticible?

What do I do with my system? A little bit of everything really...
games, video encoding, simutaneous large file transfers, CAD, a little
of everything....

The system does spend a lot of time doing nothing as well...which sucks..
but I have to work for a living...

Thanks

Redbrick...who Loves his CLK
Click to expand...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/print/asus-p4p800s.html

"The i848P is 9% slower than the dual-channel chipsets in Quake 3
and 4% slower in Unreal Tournament 2003 and Serious Sam: The
Second Encounter. You should note however that I ran the tests in
low resolution modes to make sure that the CPU-memory bus is loaded
really heavily. In real conditions, it is the graphics subsystem
that bears the main workload in 3D games, and the results shown by
different mainboards won¹t differ greatly."

Too bad they removed all the graphs - they don't load for me, and
none of the archives I know of, have a good copy.

Paul
 
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