Excuse me if this is one of my first posts.. I have been lurking here about 2 years, but only registered like 6 weeks or so ago, and haven't found a topic to really post on until now...
Hmm I don't know what to make of this review... please excuse me if my thoughts are jumbled.. I just feel a little let down.
I have been waiting for like 2.5 months for this board, as has probably everyone else with a new p4 cpu....
Geeze, lets compare the 845pe chipset to the granite bay in Asus boards:
Pro Granite bay: = fast memory benchmarks, blew the 845 chipsets away, about the same as the rimm chipsets, but then look at the real world numbers.... sigh.. I don't see exactly why I should bother paying an extra 50 to 100$ for and extra 1 fps? I mean come-on, not even the 7% realworld numbers that everyone has bandied about are here...
Cons.. no RAID (if that is important to you) although I have been told that HD's in Raid 0 mode add much more subjective speed on load save times than anything I have seen on this review).
I don't think this chipset seems to be worth it.. although "one review does not a proper evaluation make" theorum does hold true.
But if those numbers do hold true, and you are more interested in real world numbers over just sandra benchmark feelgood numbers, then it seems the obvious choice goes to a stable 845pe chipset..
what do others think?
Hope that wasn't too messed up for a first post