Which is the best ?

[Mario741]

Which is the best and most stable gaming motherboard Cpu and video cards. Without having to tinker????

Thanks for the help!!!

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[Crashman]

If you want decent performance and no tinkering, perhaps you should consider an Intel brand board and whatever CPU you can afford?

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[Mario741]

Which Intel board for P4?

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[lhgpoobaa]

Read Toms Hardware reviews.
Work out the best balance between performance and price for you.

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[o1die]

I like building pc's, but Dell has a deal that's been posted elsewhere for a few days now. Today may be the last day. With the right configuration, you can get a 2.53 p4 with everything but speakers and modem for $649 shipped. What makes it special is that it includes a 15 inch tft display. Check out the rage 3d website, and see if it's still posted.

 

[Crashman]

I don't pay much attention to "tweak free" boards. Probably whatever i850E board is newest if you can afford RDRAM, or whatever i845PE board they have if you prefer DDR.

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[Mario741]

Thanks, The fine people at Dell still had it on their website but would not sell it thanks though!

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[Mario741]

I guess I just got burnt with my A7v, I had so many problems with that board; from the sound blaster conflict, having the cards having to go in certain slots to my bad memory slots. Ok lets try again. If I were to try the a Tweeked board which are some for the new guy who does want enhanced performance, to some matter of reliability.
Thank you very much for your time and comments!

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[Crashman]

Ah, well, that would be mostly the fault of the chipset manufacturer, VIA. The performance boards I would recommend are:

For best performance/features, the Gigabyte GA-8IHXP (PC1066 RDRAM). The best PC1066 RDRAM (Kingston) is only available in 128MB sticks (the 256MB sticks were recalled).

For great performance and lower cost, the GA-8SG667 and Corsair PC3200 DDR SDRAM (aka DDR400).

For good performance, great features, reasonable cost, the Asus P4PE with Corsair PC2700 (DDR333) or PC3200 (DDR400).

The first board gives about 3% better performance than the second, the second about 3% better than the third. These represent the 3 most stable boards I can think of in the performance market.

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[alcdotcom]

I just bought a few sticks of the 256MB Kingston PC1066 RAM. Do you know why it was recalled? Thanks.

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[Crashman]

INstability. A few of them actually WORK from what I hear. So maybe you got lucky?

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[alcdotcom]

What kinds of problems were they causing? Catasrophic system crashes, or just programs core dumping? I've had some errors using Windows XP. I even got a general protection fault, which I hadn't seen in a few years. Could this be my memory generatin errors? Are there any <b> good </b> utilities for testing RDRAM that you know of? Thanks.

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[Crashman]

I think the standard RAM testers would work with RDRAM as well as SDRAM simply because they check for data errors regardless of RAM type.

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