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  1. August 6th, 2002, 10:52 AM #1
    BornOnFire
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    Hi iam building a new PC and iam gonna go with the p4 2.4 gig cpu 533 fsb. My question is what MB should i go with. I want this machine to be as fast as it can be. also what RAM should i go with the DDR or the RDRAM iam not sure whats the best RAM to use....thx for any input....Born
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  2. August 6th, 2002, 11:00 AM #2
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    ASUS P4B533 Skt478 and DDR.
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  3. August 6th, 2002, 11:28 AM #3
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    If you want the fastest thing today, get a P4T533-C with 1066 RAMBUS memory.

    Here's the Memory Benchmarks at Tom's Hardware
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  4. August 6th, 2002, 11:33 AM #4
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    The SiS 648 chipset looks fairly good, but I haven't seen anything based on it in the retail market yet.

    Here are some sites if you want to do some reading:
    Accelenation - didn't mention support for S-ATA

    AnandTech - always a good read.

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    I just found this . . .
    Tom's Hardware
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  5. August 6th, 2002, 11:38 AM #5
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    I would go for a board with DDR as RAMBUS is very expensive and tends to get a little hot, not to mention that you have to install it in pairs. As for what board, I cant help ya there, I have only built a handfull of P4 machines.
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  6. August 6th, 2002, 12:05 PM #6
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    i've used alot of the Asus P4B533 and the P4S533 boards and they are nice stable boards. i also just used a Abit SA7 that i really liked. it doesn't have raid or usb 2.0, but it has sound and lan and its fairly cheap, $85 at Newegg.
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