Ditching AMD, sub, or anyone with reliable system please adv

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 6:32 am

Im considering ditching my amd rig in favour of pentium 4.
However I am sacrificing the speed of my athlon 1700+ XP.

I have one 512mb and one 128mb 133 sdram.
I would like to keep these as buying new rimms will cost me big time.

I would aslo like a board with relyable built in ethernet that doesn't use the pci bus, if possible.

Also I would like to overclock the p4 to make up for speed loses.

Can anyone recommend a board for me?

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 10:23 am

are they DDR ram? there is not much point getting a p4 with sdram. they love fast memory.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 10:35 am

No they are not DDR, which is my main protest really. I think I'll leave the upgrade for a bit, the mainboard market seems to be going through upheavel with all this talk of usb2, firewire, bluetooth etc
The lastest gigabyte board looks good though. I think I'll upgrade at the same time as adding a luna to my pulsar 1.
But recommendations still welcome

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 10:55 am

all those things are just bells and whistles to disable anyways

what is the model number of the board you are looking at?

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 11:09 am

Yeah, you could be right. Heres the link for reviews of lots of 845 boards. The gigabyte is one I was looking at, the asus also looks good, but the gigabyte wins me over I think.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/ ... dr-16.html

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 11:49 am

but it is a DDR board. now i am confused. anyways I would get the Asus P4B266 if you are getting a DDR one.

The gigabyte looks nice. it is blue

it has some things you will not need like RAID.
IT may benchmark a bit higher on certain things. but toms never tests PCI and IRQ. i think you would be safer using creamware with the Asus, although the difference probably is not that much.

more people have the asus as well so it would be easier to get help.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 1:11 pm

Well I'll sort it when I have a bit more money.
Just out of interest defex or anyone, what is the lowest workable latency on a p4 rig using 2nd gen hardware?

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 2:04 pm

In XP, using only Luna2, i can work totaly reliably with 3ms, but adding my Pulsar1(old generation card) into the equation using STDM , i have to work with 7ms. 3ms work, but sometimes i get pops or clicks.

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Wed Mar 27, 2002 2:28 pm

Thanks marcus thats useful to know, as I'm getting a luna in a month or so to supplement my pulsar I, can you select whether to use the luna on its own @ 3ms. Or do you have to disconnect the stdm cable?

BTW; FM one never did turn up in my mail, don't worry about it. I've got the propack to keep me entertained!