[RnPgrosz]

I'm thinking about going P4 with my primary rig because I am getting pretty frustrated with my amd rig (temps). Anyway I would like peoples' recommendations for the motherboard and cpu. I want a ddr setup and something that will either outperform or be pretty close to my xp at 1.9 ghz. Probably something I would be able to overclock to abut 2.6-2.8 ghz. Thanks

[Wallacebw]

see:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showth...hreadid=103862

and

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showth...threadid=96716

Brian

[Wallacebw]

btw:

you may want to remove the link from your sig as only senior members are allowed to have links in there sig...


http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/announ...p?s=&forumid=2

Brian

[RnPgrosz]

Originally posted by Wallacebw
btw:

you may want to remove the link from your sig as only senior members are allowed to have links in there sig...


http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/announ...p?s=&forumid=2

Brian

Actually, your wrong there.You can't have a link to your own site but this a link to heatware which is perfectly fine. I'm sure if you were to look carefully you would see links in many peoples' sigs.

[Darryl_D]

well an xp @1.9ghz is going to be hard to beat! the only you will be able to beat it is if your willing to dish out the dough! Currently a lot of people on these forums (myself included) are running at 3ghz! What's mostly everybody using? Get an Abit BD7II Raid (128 dollars at the egg) and then flash mr naturals bios on it....Then get a pentium 4 2.26B (comes for 245 @googlegear) the 2.26 runs on a 133mhz bus so it's a 17x multiplier (note you can't change them on the p4's) a lot of peopel are getting it to 3ghz and i'm 199 percent sure that it'll beat your amd rig! And the temps are high (take it from me) my chip idles at low 40's (42-43) and loaded it does 57 so don't get discouraged as long as it's stable! Intel chips can put up with a lot of punishment before they give!

[Wallacebw]

hehe... i knew that I was um.... testing you... yes thats it I was testing you... good you passed

thanks for clearing that up... I really like how this forum is 'self regulating' it helps to keep it clean and on topic...

BTW: were the two links that I posted useful to you?

Brian

[RnPgrosz]

Yeah they were very usefull, Thanks. I am glad you are looking out and making sure all the rules are being follwed.

[cmbplaya]

i just built four of these machines.. lets see what they have on them....:
dual xeon 2.2 ghz
with 82.3 gb ata100 7200 rpm drive
with 512 mb rdram (leaving two open slots to expand)
with separate 32X12X48 cdrw and 16x dvd-rom drives

in antec/chieftec 10 bay case
featuring 4 5.25" drive bays
2 - 3.5" external drive bays
and 4 - 3.5" internal drive bays
460W ps with temperature controlled fans
case comes with two 80mm fans in front, two in back, and one on the side
as well as 5.25" hd cooler that fits the 3.5" hard drive
included with a pci exhaust fan
live 5.1 sound card
64 mb geforce4 mx420 video card (agp 4x pro)
two usb ports
four firwire ports
included is a multifunction panel installed in front 5.25" drive bay that reroutes the two usb connections, one firewire connection, the midi game port to the front of the machine
this panel also displays the temperature of the machine inside so you can check to see if your baby is overheating

five pci slots
two pci slots are 66mhz
three at 32mhz
with an agp pro slot

two slots for xeon 603-pin processors
supporting speeds in excess of 2.4 ghz
with a 400mhz front side bus
four rdram slots
comes with two continuity rimms (crimms)
board also features built in vrms
and has built in 10/100 nic card in addition to traditional ps/2 and serial ports
the installed RDRAM is PC800 certified paired 256 mb chips, for a total of 512 mb of memory
extreme workstation or extreme server

equivalent machine on dell costs in excess of 5000


has approx. 250 cfm

comes with ms elite keyboard and standard logitech mouse (wheel)

oh yeah, its got a floppy drive too...

now im going to over clock it to 2.4 ghz... and all this for right at 2 g's... im very impressed

[RnPgrosz]

That is one sweet machine.