Pentium 4 Question , NEWBIE

[psx2000]

Ok im debating again over amd or pentium.

Today im going to the store to buy one or the other money aint a issue , performance is.


Now i got a few questions.


Is there any intel board that supports DDR 400?
If there isnt what is the best board out there for a 2.8 p4?
Is a p4 2.8 better then a XP2400?


What i want to do is play unreal 2003 with my radeon 9700 and i got other stuff to that the computer will be used for.

 

[Zedric]

The P4 2.8 is faster than the XP 2400+.
Check out the benchmark results (and following pages):
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q4/021001/xp_2800-12.html
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020826/p4_2800-05.html

 

[psx2000]

Yeah just spent the last hour reading.

The mother board i think that looks apealing to me is


Asus P4: P4PE LAN-UAY
http://www.byteware.net/index.php?page=info&id=2704

or
Asus P4: P4S8X LAN/1394/SATA/R133
http://www.byteware.net/index.php?page=info&id=2595

I cant really tell whats better.

I plan to go with just 3 sticks of ddr 333 instead now after reading in some test 333 beat out 400 cause its still buggy or something.

 

[Zodiaq]

They are both nice boards...I almost bought the P4S8X...but opted out because of price. The 8x AGP is appealing.

Whatever you do don't buy it from byteware. You can pick it up at www.newegg.com for $139 right now.

 

[Taurus]

SiS isn't that good of a chipset maker. good for value, but not performance. for P4, i'd go with intel.. and if you want asus, that'd be the P4T533-C. uses pc1066 rambus. it's an extremely fast board.

but asus' newest one is the P4PE and it looks even better. uses ddr333, which is a little slower, though. it also uses that new hyper-threading junk.

 

[baser5nature]

SiS is better than ALi

 

[Luna64]

I beg to differ, SIS has made a turn around and now is a very good and fast chip. Faster then you might expect

 

[Zodiaq]

SiS isn't that good of a chipset maker? Says who...do the research. I can give you at least 5 links to reputable sites that have benchmarked SiS against Intel.

The results are all pretty conclusive. SiS is a major player with top notch components.

SiS even has a P4-bus license agreement with Intel

check these out....

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzM0LDI=

http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q4/011217/i845d-11.html

They are good for 2 things VALUE & PERFORMANCE.

 

[Taurus]

okay, okay.. i stand corrected. i was basing it off of my experience with SiS chipsets for amd processors. i don't keep up that much with p4 technology and didn't realize SiS made a name for itself on the other side of the hill.