DeviQ3 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 k, for a few months ive been planning on building a new computer, but i always get diffrent opinions from the people i ask so i thught id come to a actual comp forum and ask mobo- Asus P4PE Socket 478 for Intel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 everything will run...at first glance BUT! Your ram is DDR 333(pc2700) and your board only supports upto DDR233(pc2100) This will be okay if you plan on OCing your RAM because it will run fine when you do. The other thing is that your board only supports upto 4x AGP and your video card is capable of doing 8x AGP. If you get this board you wont be putting your video card to the max but rather, at half speed (which is still very respectable) Everything should run together. No building a computer isnt hard, just remember to ground your self before you touch anything and dont force anything to fit btw, I noticed you dont have any CD-ROM drives or floppy drives....that will make it really hard to install an OS without a CD-ROM drive In my personal oppionon Id get an AMD cpu but alot of people latley have been going to intel. if you want everything to run at full speed on your mobo then look for one that supports upto DDRpc2700(or more) and one that supports AGP 4x and AGP 8x. Good luck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeviQ3 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 crap, lol whats a good board that supports 8x agp? i was told that asus were the best mobo's Memory 3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets support max. 2GB PC2700/PC2100 (FSB533) or PC2100/PC1600 (FSB400) non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory says it supports up to 2 gigs of pc2700, but if it doesnt support the vid card i dont want it... :| i still havnt decided on cd-rom/rw cuz to tell ut he truth im just confused on what the heck i need/should get.. thx ps, is corsair better then samsung memory? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolDfiNger Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 actually it does support pc2700 and it will support your vid card it jsut will be at 4x not 8x Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeviQ3 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 actually it does support pc2700 and it will support your vid card it jsut will be at 4x not 8x k whats the diffrence between 4x and 8x on the vid card? is it noticable? cuz i havnt found any mobo's that support 8x...... what bout the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra 2 Intel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpandapuss Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 The P4PE supports PC2700--I use PC3200 with no problems at all. You can OC that processor to 3.4GHz but I would recommend using a ThermalTake Volcano 7+ [iMO]. That setup looks close to mine and I'll go out on a limb and say it'll give ya what your looking for.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeghead009 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 id go with the GA-8INXP it will do everything you want it to and you can run your DDR in a Dual Channel set up the difference between 8x and 4X AGP is that 4X can move 1 Gb/s and 8x can move 2 Gb/s but the numbers dont mean anything but its nice to know they are there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeviQ3 Posted January 25, 2003 Posted January 25, 2003 k heres an update i think this is the final system ill be buying... Mobo- ASP4G8X ASUS Cpu- Pentium 4 2.8Ghz VidCard- ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Memory- 1024MB XMS2700 Corsair HDrive- 120GB Western Digital Case- Blue Aluminum Chieftec W/ Window, 4 80mm case fans PS- Enermax 431watt cables- round IDE cables heatsink- Thermaltake Volcano 7+ Cooler total - 1841$ seems kinda pricey to me was expecting it to be bout 1600 max, but im ordering from only 2 places instead of a goose chase for the cheapest prices... so i guess thats ok, what u guys think? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATI Radeon 8500 Posted January 26, 2003 Posted January 26, 2003 That looks good isn't that the new Granite Bay motherboard? Well that should get you to 3.4 GHz pretty easily with the V7+ as your heatsink. You shouldn't have too much trouble overcloknig your system just go into BIOS and raise your FSB gradually (1 MHz-5 MHz at a time) until it won't stably run a heavy load program. (Note: To achieve a clock speed of 3.4 GHz you'll need to raise the FSB to about 162 MHz, I'd say go for 166 MHz though for looks )When it won't stably run a heavy load program like 3D Mark 2001SE, you can either decrease the FSB by 1 MHz at a time and see the top speed you can achieve, or you can raise your VCore (Core Voltage, higher means more stable) and try to make it stable through that, but be warned that that will add heat. So through doing that you can overclock your computer. Ypu can also change your RAM timings in BIOS (Probably under advanced BIOS features) to lower numbers such as 2-2-2-5 (best possible timings) and that will speed it up. On a last note, make sure your AGP settings are at 8X in BIOS and that your AGP aperture is set to 128 MB (I've learned that from experience ). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeviQ3 Posted January 26, 2003 Posted January 26, 2003 UPDATE, i still dont know which board to get...i was sure until i read anothetr thread here at OCClub.com saying that the radeon 9700 didnt work right with the mobo i was choosing... i was gonna get the Asus P4S8X but it says Here that it had bugs, and i was just wondering if this happened with ALL of the mobos, or just with a few(like a bug in a few of them) sorry if i just sound dumb :| anyways, can anyone give me some more info about this? or a couple more suggestions for another mobo(with 8x AGP)? this machine will be for gaming...here are my system specs so far intel p4 2.8Ghz Corsair XMS pc2700 1 gig (2 x 512mb) radeon 9700 pro thx to anyone who replys..... dev Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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