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- Aug 22, 2001
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- in a state
First off, I am deffinately getting a 875P motherboard, though I am constantly going back and forth trying to decide between two boards:
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
or
MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R
The asus appeals to me with the AI overclocking, but I probably will end up overclocking manually anyway.
The MSI looks good with the 4 SATA ports instead of the two thats on the asus, and I was checking out the manual....with a 533 bus CPU the RAM can be set to 354mhz instead of a max of 333mhz that the asus is capable of. I do want to get the most out of my PC-3200 DDR RAM.
Do you think the 354 would be that much of an improvement over 333?
also I want to do IDE RAID w.2 WD 120GB SE HDs, will I be able to do this with a paralell to SATA adapter on the intel SATA or do I need a two SATA drives?
The MSI looks good....but so doesn't the asus....I am not considering Abit since it doesn't have a onboard promise controller,I will need that for my other hard drives.
current situation:
P4 2.533ghz (maxes out at 2.869ghz @ default voltage, 151 FSB)
Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra
1GB PC-3200 DDR (2, 512MB Geil)
48X CD-RW TDK
16X Lite on DVD
120GB SE HD
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
or
MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R
The asus appeals to me with the AI overclocking, but I probably will end up overclocking manually anyway.
The MSI looks good with the 4 SATA ports instead of the two thats on the asus, and I was checking out the manual....with a 533 bus CPU the RAM can be set to 354mhz instead of a max of 333mhz that the asus is capable of. I do want to get the most out of my PC-3200 DDR RAM.
Do you think the 354 would be that much of an improvement over 333?
also I want to do IDE RAID w.2 WD 120GB SE HDs, will I be able to do this with a paralell to SATA adapter on the intel SATA or do I need a two SATA drives?
The MSI looks good....but so doesn't the asus....I am not considering Abit since it doesn't have a onboard promise controller,I will need that for my other hard drives.
current situation:
P4 2.533ghz (maxes out at 2.869ghz @ default voltage, 151 FSB)
Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra
1GB PC-3200 DDR (2, 512MB Geil)
48X CD-RW TDK
16X Lite on DVD
120GB SE HD