Should I get P4C800 (i875) or P4R800-V (ATI 9100IGP)? Or even Abit IC7 Max3
I'm about to build a new HTPC after having my current one around two years, which is a clear record for me. I bought good, fast hardware when I built it - a lot cheaper than getting cheap low-end stuff and having to upgrade after 6 months... I'm looking very hard at the Asus P4R800-V with AIT 9100 chipset, both because it seems to fit the bill for ffdshow (for those who do not know this is sort of an equalizer for your DVDs (well, for rips as well, but rips do not look good on a CRT projector with an more than 8 foot wide screen...)) (the things that are needed are dual channel memory support and a fast bus), because it's reasonably priced (around 120 dollars in Norway) and because I hope to be able to use the built-in 9100 graphics chip as a second graphics card along with my 9800 AIW. And then there's the P4C800, which doesn't have the ATI graphics card, but may be better to get a stable OC on. I'm considering using them together with a 3.0 gHz Prescott with 1 mb cache.
Will this be a good setup? I also hope to be able to overclock the CPU a bit. I know that with water cooling or other types of extreme cooling this processor can get up to 4 gig, but that's probably not possible to have stable since I'm planning to run it with air cooling (a very good Zalman cooler, but still...).
The wish is to be able to run Denoise 3D, dScaler Sharpen and resize (probably higher than my current 1024x768, which is my desktop size on the Barco Graphics 808). This is done barely with a clock speed of 3 gig, but I would like to be able to push up to around 3.5 if possible. The demand, and this is not an option, is 100 % stability. I have had this with my AMD XP2600/MSI KT-4 setup all along, so I won't settle for less. This is an always on computer (because it doubles as a whole house media server), so there's no way I'm gonna relax this demand.
Oh, then there's the possibility of using an Abit IC7 Max3 instead. How would that work in this competition?
Can somebody please tell me what I should do? If I'm able to run the P4 @ 3.5 with the ATI based board I will go for that. If not I will have to lean towards the i875 based board. Thanks in advance!
I'm about to build a new HTPC after having my current one around two years, which is a clear record for me. I bought good, fast hardware when I built it - a lot cheaper than getting cheap low-end stuff and having to upgrade after 6 months... I'm looking very hard at the Asus P4R800-V with AIT 9100 chipset, both because it seems to fit the bill for ffdshow (for those who do not know this is sort of an equalizer for your DVDs (well, for rips as well, but rips do not look good on a CRT projector with an more than 8 foot wide screen...)) (the things that are needed are dual channel memory support and a fast bus), because it's reasonably priced (around 120 dollars in Norway) and because I hope to be able to use the built-in 9100 graphics chip as a second graphics card along with my 9800 AIW. And then there's the P4C800, which doesn't have the ATI graphics card, but may be better to get a stable OC on. I'm considering using them together with a 3.0 gHz Prescott with 1 mb cache.
Will this be a good setup? I also hope to be able to overclock the CPU a bit. I know that with water cooling or other types of extreme cooling this processor can get up to 4 gig, but that's probably not possible to have stable since I'm planning to run it with air cooling (a very good Zalman cooler, but still...).
The wish is to be able to run Denoise 3D, dScaler Sharpen and resize (probably higher than my current 1024x768, which is my desktop size on the Barco Graphics 808). This is done barely with a clock speed of 3 gig, but I would like to be able to push up to around 3.5 if possible. The demand, and this is not an option, is 100 % stability. I have had this with my AMD XP2600/MSI KT-4 setup all along, so I won't settle for less. This is an always on computer (because it doubles as a whole house media server), so there's no way I'm gonna relax this demand.
Oh, then there's the possibility of using an Abit IC7 Max3 instead. How would that work in this competition?
Can somebody please tell me what I should do? If I'm able to run the P4 @ 3.5 with the ATI based board I will go for that. If not I will have to lean towards the i875 based board. Thanks in advance!
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