Which board for a Pentium 3.2 GHz E?
Hi there,
I wish to upgrade my pc mainly because of stability issues which I cannot wholey rectify and am now fed up. My current set up is:
Asus P4s8x mobo
CPU P4 2.4 533 FSB
RAM ocz pc2700 256 mbx2, ocz pc3200 (copper) 512 x1
PSU Q technology 400 W
PATA IDE: Deskstar 120 GB x2, WESTERN DIGITAL 200 GB 8mbx1, Seagate 80 GBx1
Promise 2 pata pci controller
Pioneer 16x dvd rom, liton 52x cdrw, sony dru 600A dvd rw
I mainly use my sytem for video edition/ encoding, wiht some general application use such as Office, Internet, Paintshop. I basically never game
I think the stability issue is primarily the pc3200 with the board, is not compatible and no matter how i have treid cannot unraval and sort out the stability. MEM test seems to run ok though.
Been christmas funds are sort of limted and I was thinking of spending around the £200-£220 mark max. With Dual core chips on the horizon although i do not expect them to really be mainstream big time until 206/2007 I thought I would simply upgrade for now recycling my current setup. Intially mobo and memory (replace the pc270o with an identical pc3200 and running it dual channel) and a little later, maybe a few months upgrade the cpu to either a 3.2 GB 1mb cache p4 or a 3.4 (the cpu tests http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-18.html seem to suggest for the video encoding side that the 3.2 P4 E is slightly better than the AMD Newcastle 3.4, the next superior amd been the 3.7 Clawhammer, although admiting amd is better in other areas).
I realise the pata set up is not ideal but needed the space at the time and sata were not heavily big on GB at the time. Maybe oin a few months I will also upgrade to some big SATA drives eg the Maxtor 300 GB 16 MB cache or something (we will see nearer the time).
So with my plan the first is the mobo. Now the Gigabyte seems to have some interesting options http://www.tomshardware.com/firstlook/20040817/index.html , esp in terms of hdd support but I have not seen any head to head comparisions with the asus which seems very good although the reviews now for it are getting on the old side. But I confess I am an pc novice too.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TJ2004 on 01/02/05 04:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Hi there,
I wish to upgrade my pc mainly because of stability issues which I cannot wholey rectify and am now fed up. My current set up is:
Asus P4s8x mobo
CPU P4 2.4 533 FSB
RAM ocz pc2700 256 mbx2, ocz pc3200 (copper) 512 x1
PSU Q technology 400 W
PATA IDE: Deskstar 120 GB x2, WESTERN DIGITAL 200 GB 8mbx1, Seagate 80 GBx1
Promise 2 pata pci controller
Pioneer 16x dvd rom, liton 52x cdrw, sony dru 600A dvd rw
I mainly use my sytem for video edition/ encoding, wiht some general application use such as Office, Internet, Paintshop. I basically never game
I think the stability issue is primarily the pc3200 with the board, is not compatible and no matter how i have treid cannot unraval and sort out the stability. MEM test seems to run ok though.
Been christmas funds are sort of limted and I was thinking of spending around the £200-£220 mark max. With Dual core chips on the horizon although i do not expect them to really be mainstream big time until 206/2007 I thought I would simply upgrade for now recycling my current setup. Intially mobo and memory (replace the pc270o with an identical pc3200 and running it dual channel) and a little later, maybe a few months upgrade the cpu to either a 3.2 GB 1mb cache p4 or a 3.4 (the cpu tests http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/cpu_charts-18.html seem to suggest for the video encoding side that the 3.2 P4 E is slightly better than the AMD Newcastle 3.4, the next superior amd been the 3.7 Clawhammer, although admiting amd is better in other areas).
I realise the pata set up is not ideal but needed the space at the time and sata were not heavily big on GB at the time. Maybe oin a few months I will also upgrade to some big SATA drives eg the Maxtor 300 GB 16 MB cache or something (we will see nearer the time).
So with my plan the first is the mobo. Now the Gigabyte seems to have some interesting options http://www.tomshardware.com/firstlook/20040817/index.html , esp in terms of hdd support but I have not seen any head to head comparisions with the asus which seems very good although the reviews now for it are getting on the old side. But I confess I am an pc novice too.
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by TJ2004 on 01/02/05 04:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
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