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[bkidd11]

Crashman,
Sorry to be a pain in the a$$ but I posted that I was going to buy an Asus Mobo Asus P4B533-E i845E P4 (533FSB) Skt478 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, RAID, LAN Retail 400/533FSB, ATA/100, 3DDR DIMM, AGP Pro, 6PCI, 4USB 2.0, 2 Firewire, Audio, RAID, LAN


You Replied that Asus now has an i845PE chipset board that's similar but with DDR333 support for better upgrade options?


No I didn't and I can't seem to find out which board it is.Can you fill me in with the answer??

I was looing to buy everything from Googlegear as their price's seem to be pretty good. I not real worried about OC"n because i'd fry everything,lol


Thanks for your help

 

[bkidd11]

Oh and what ramm should I use???? Meaning PC2100,PC2400 or PC2700 or even PC3000,etc.??

Can ya tell i'm a newbiw????

 

[pr497]

lemme see if i can answer your question...

You Replied that Asus now has an i845PE chipset board that's similar but with DDR333 support for better upgrade options?
No I didn't and I can't seem to find out which board it is.Can you fill me in with the answer??

yes...the 845PE has been released very recently under the name of asus P4PE...its a really neat motherboard IMO...but at a high price....close to $200 last time i check (in US dollars)...

anyways...i think your P4B533 will do you just nicely...it has an undocumented dip switch that allows ddr354 memory speed at FSB > 132...which is slightly higher than ddr333...
as for the ram...try come corsair pc3000 ram...those seem pretty reliable.

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[Crashman]

<A HREF="http://www.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4pe/overview.htm" target="_new">http://www.asus.com/mb/socket478/p4pe/overview.htm</A>
Anyway, he might be right on the pricing. If you decide to go with the P4B533-E, I recommend PC3200 and running the memory at DDR354 (177MHz clock) with a QDR533 (133MHz clock) CPU bus. Of course PC3000 would work, and some PC2700 (normal clock 166MHz) would handle the extra speed. But Cas 2.5 PC3200 (DDR400=200MHz clock) should run at Cas2 when lowered to DDR354 speed.

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