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Well, as soon as I can sell my last system, I think I'm going to move to an Intel platform starting off at about 2.66ghz or so. I was looking at the Asus P4PE with SATA but was wondering what some of your suggestions would be and personal experiences with this board. Also, any suggestions on chipsets?
i have used the P4PE several times and love it. never had a problem. i have not used the SATA though, so i can't comment on that. but the USB 2.0 and Firewire work great.
I'm thinking of using the same mobo. Anyone have more comments on this one?
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe ...
http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.HTM
Nice board.
The P4PE is a good board but your limitting yourself to 533Mhz FSB in a time when 800Mhz is fast becoming the standard.
I run my P4P800 Deluxe at 10% overclock (880Mhz FSB) with a gig of Corsair matched 466Mhz memory and a P4 3.0 running at 3.3Ghz. It's ROCK solid.
It comes with SATA but I run U160 SCSI. I have a pair of SATA drives in another machine that run really well as storage drives but I haven't tried using one as a system drive or in RAID.
Asus make some damn good boards, I'm running one right now. You may also want to check into the intel line of boards, sure you pay a little more, but in my experience they last and they are rock solid. Plus they are adding overclocking options now
A friend of mine just built a P4P800 Deluxe with sata drives and a 2.8Ghz. He's running it at 30% overclock and says it's stable so far. The XP install disk also saw the sata controllers/drives without having to create a driver floppy. :cool:
Same here Silencio. Running a 2.8 @ 3.2 using stock cooling with no rise in thermals. Running solid as a rock. Just a shame that I can't find any dual channel DDR400 that I can get on with :( Running some cracking CAS2 DDR333 at the moment which gives more than enough bandwidth for the use that I want the machine to do (no gaming).