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  1. March 28th, 2003, 12:18 PM #1
    ephmynus
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    Motherboard Suggestion

    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?
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  2. March 28th, 2003, 12:32 PM #2
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    Thumbs up

    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.
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  3. March 29th, 2003, 06:23 PM #3
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    Asus P4pe

    I'm thinking of using the same mobo. Anyone have more comments on this one?
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  4. November 16th, 2003, 11:56 AM #4
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    Asus P4C800-E Deluxe ...

    http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...d/overview.HTM

    Nice board.
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  5. November 16th, 2003, 04:16 PM #5
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    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.
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  6. November 22nd, 2003, 07:22 PM #6
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    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
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  7. November 22nd, 2003, 09:42 PM #7
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    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.
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  8. December 2nd, 2003, 07:59 PM #8
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    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).
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