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- Feb 16, 2002
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Since there's going to be plenty of Granite Bay reviews published today I thought it best to have a single thread in which to post links and thoughts etc.
So far we only have two reviews...........
MSI GNB Max (Granite Bay) Motherboard Review @ TBreak
Asus P4G8X Review @ OCWorkBench
Please everybody, add more links as they become available but post the previous links alongside the new ones so we don't have to search through the whole thread for links, mm-kay?
Thoughts so far? Well, as expected it's stock performance level is almost identical (but a little behind) to an i850E/PC1066 combo. If you don't plan on overclocking then go for a cheaper i845PE setup. But if you do plan on overclocking (and that's what we're here for) then GB is an overclockers dream. The MCH (Northbridge) looks like being capable of very high speeds.....
(overclocks so far)
Kyle 'Whoops there goes my forum' Bennett, Asus P4G8X - 188MHz FSB.
Abbas @ TBreak, Asus P4G8X - 190MHz FSB.
Abbas @ TBreak, MSI GNB Max - 182MHz FSB (limited by lack of AGP/PCI Fix).
I've excluded the OCWB overclock (145MHz FSB) because they only used stock vcore with their 2.4B P4 and obviously were hitting the CPU limit and not the GB MCH.
Add the superb MCH overclocking potential to the fact that your DDR isn't being pushed very hard (at 166MHz FSB your DDR is only running at DDR333 speed) and you will end up only really being limited by your CPU mostly. The packed feature set is also nice to have and being able to use your old DDR is a bonus too.
Easy (and very high FSB) overclocking with RDRAM 4x performance will make GB a very nice chipset to own. Start saving those pennies.
So far we only have two reviews...........
MSI GNB Max (Granite Bay) Motherboard Review @ TBreak
Asus P4G8X Review @ OCWorkBench
Please everybody, add more links as they become available but post the previous links alongside the new ones so we don't have to search through the whole thread for links, mm-kay?
Thoughts so far? Well, as expected it's stock performance level is almost identical (but a little behind) to an i850E/PC1066 combo. If you don't plan on overclocking then go for a cheaper i845PE setup. But if you do plan on overclocking (and that's what we're here for) then GB is an overclockers dream. The MCH (Northbridge) looks like being capable of very high speeds.....
(overclocks so far)
Kyle 'Whoops there goes my forum' Bennett, Asus P4G8X - 188MHz FSB.
Abbas @ TBreak, Asus P4G8X - 190MHz FSB.
Abbas @ TBreak, MSI GNB Max - 182MHz FSB (limited by lack of AGP/PCI Fix).
I've excluded the OCWB overclock (145MHz FSB) because they only used stock vcore with their 2.4B P4 and obviously were hitting the CPU limit and not the GB MCH.
Add the superb MCH overclocking potential to the fact that your DDR isn't being pushed very hard (at 166MHz FSB your DDR is only running at DDR333 speed) and you will end up only really being limited by your CPU mostly. The packed feature set is also nice to have and being able to use your old DDR is a bonus too.
Easy (and very high FSB) overclocking with RDRAM 4x performance will make GB a very nice chipset to own. Start saving those pennies.