2.4c mobo asus e or no e

[sramjones]

i am building a new pc and want the best performance for my overclock which motherboard is the best and which get the best speeds in overclocks on the 2.4c

 

[JKeefe]

If you don't care about price/performance, the P4C800-E is what you want.

On a side note, that should be a 5,400 RPM drive in your sig, not 54,000 RPM

 

[RedArmy]

What if we take the price /performance factor into consideration? I am building a Video encoding system for Home movies and such. Plan to get 2 Raptors in RAID, 2x512 Corsair 3200, 2.4C and a Good motherboard. It must be a good overclocker and have good RAID controller and sound. Thank you very much.

 

[Prok]

If you care about price/performance, get a P4P800 deluxe. You'll save about 60 bucks or so and there isn't a whole lot of difference - the main one is the chipset, but the P4P800 compensates for that with "mam". The 875 chipset (P4C800) uses Intels "pat" technology to make the system about 3~5% faster. The P4P800 (865 chipset) has a built-in option (mam) in the bios that can activate this. The thing is, if you oc either board, PAT (or MAM) automatically turns off! I haven't spent too much time looking at the oc'ing differences so someone else can tell you if they're really all that different (I have a feeling that they aren't).

 

[JKeefe]

Yeah, definitely go with the P4P800 for price/performance. Only get the deluxe if you need firewire and IDE RAID. You loose PAT and CSA with the P4P800, but retain the pure speed of a 200 MHz FSB system and SATA RAID.

 

[RedArmy]

Does the regular P4P800 not have Firewire?

 

[JKeefe]

Correct, no built-in firewire on the P4P800 non-deluxe (i.e. no motherboard headers. But, you can still get firewire from a firewire PCI card, or the port built into Audigy soundcards, etc.

 

[SybrCLocK]

between the P4P800 and the P4C800 wich have the chipset as difference wich would you choose..

i heard that the i875 has some stability problems?!
me <-

 

[Prok]

p4p800 deluxe