Best P4 800FSB Mobo?

**royce** · 11-10-2003, 05:25 PM

Whats the best motherboard out there that I could use.
I have a Radeon 9800 256mb edition, and 1gb pc2100 ram, and IDE 7200 hard drives and a 550W PSU. MY Lanparty Pro875 went bad so i'm getting that warrantied but buying another board in the meantime to replace it. Any suggestions? I havent been paying attention to computers lately so I dont kno whats the best out right now, gimme a heads up m8

*EDIT* Forgot about the P4 2.4ghz 800FSB CPU

CHEERS!

**Davion** · 11-10-2003, 06:24 PM

the ABIT IC7-G MAX II Advance or the ABIT IC7-MAX 3 tor some good overclcoking potentional !

ASUS P4C800 (-E) Deluxe for a little les overclocking !

**Austin** · 11-10-2003, 07:26 PM

There's a recent review somewhere (AnAnd, Toms?) that I haven't had chance to look at yet. From what I know currently I'd say any mobo based on the Intel865/875 (865PE, 875P IIRC) is what you want. You may want to ensure it can do 1000FSB if you plan to o/c, however your PC2100 is going to be severely limiting for these CPUs and mobos, I'd suggest you seriously consider at least PC3200 from TwinMOS or Adata. Adata do PC4000 for a good price, www.cpucity.co.uk IIRC ut also check out www.komplett.co.uk . 512MB of that is way preferable to 1GB of PC2100 for almost all users, very little benefits from such a large amount of RAM.

**unrealrocks** · 11-10-2003, 08:10 PM

I've used both an ABit MAX3 and P4P800 ... the ABit proved much more powerful and got a 2.66Ghz P4C to 3.35Ghz on Stock cooling! (Thats 255*13, 5:4) ... prefered it to the Asus board ALTHOUGH theres the slight problem of price ... its like 170 odd quid!

**royce** · 11-10-2003, 08:25 PM

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/geil512433.html Would this work with it?

**rob3** · 11-10-2003, 08:49 PM

I would have to say that the Abit IC7 MAX3 is certainly one of the best out, i have jst been testing one! Its Brilliant, Overclocks very well, memory bandwidth is outta this world. £170 may be a little steap but its only £20 more than Asus's Canterwood deluxe!

**thet2** · 11-10-2003, 09:29 PM

i'm very happy with my P4P800 dlx, doing 265 with stock voltage on my 2.6 cpu (3450MHz) very nice and stable, one downside, the northbridge heatsink gets toasty.

**Austin** · 11-10-2003, 11:42 PM

Originally posted by royce
http://store.yahoo.com/directron/geil512433.html Would this work with it?

I dislike Geil, much of their early stuff was dire overvolted crap. TwinMOS probably offer the best quality to price ratio unless you can get hold of some Adata.

**SHARKMEAT** · 12-10-2003, 08:51 PM

Originally posted by rob3
I would have to say that the Abit IC7 MAX3 is certainly one of the best out, i have jst been testing one! Its Brilliant, Overclocks very well, memory bandwidth is outta this world. £170 may be a little steap but its only £20 more than Asus's Canterwood deluxe!

BTW what does the higher memory band width give you far as performance.I couldn't see no diff in my 533 fsb rdarm system with it,s benchmark w/softsandra of 3486 memory reading, than the 800fsb with the 3 ghz 800 model with the higher band width reading. My games didn't show any speed jump for me to notice in game play, so whats the big deal.I think people are getting caught up with all these funny numbers and getting sucked out of there hard earned money,for no more performance that the new crap will do with the programs you have to work with. well thats my view anyway.

PS: My recomendation is the a 2.4 P4T533-C with 512 megs of Rdram. You can go higher with CPU if you wish, but I seen the light, and my 3.06 don't jump over the 2.4 as you would think. But they are one hell of a stable system that like the bunnie rabbit just keep on going and going.

Now that is an Honest system recomendation you can do with it what you like.

My system 3.06 Ghz 533fsb [not overclocked ] P4T533-C with 768/1066 rdram.Runs cool at 32 F.

**Volcano** · 12-10-2003, 08:56 PM

ASUS P4C800-E is far superior atm but costs a few quid

**Korky** · 12-10-2003, 08:58 PM

32 F? you using chilled water/peltier? why dont do overclock it :S

**rob3** · 12-10-2003, 09:12 PM

PC mark with PC3200 memory, and 2.6 800FSB P4 on the ABIT IC7 MAX3:
MEM: 8407
CPU: 6477

When overclocked to 3.35 (255FSB),
MEM:9424
CPU:8073

very nice scores as you can see

**SHARKMEAT** · 12-10-2003, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by Korky
32 F? you using chilled water/peltier? why dont do overclock it :S

LOL don't need to over clock it runs just fine,and no that 32 f is Idle underload it runs at aroung 105 F I use the zalman 7000 copper ver heat sink the big round one, check it out http://www.xpcgear.com/zalman7000acu.html but even with the stock heat sink it ran at 112 F underload so I didn't really needed the new heat sink, but the zalman is alot easyer to remove,if need be.

**SHARKMEAT** · 12-10-2003, 09:20 PM

Originally posted by rob3
PC mark with PC3200 memory, and 2.6 800FSB P4 on the ABIT IC7 MAX3:
MEM: 8407
CPU: 6477

When overclocked to 3.35 (255FSB),
MEM:9424
CPU:8073

very nice scores as you can see

Now you take the MEM: 8407 scores and do something with them that will show you the diff in a rdram 1066 memoery running at 3486,that will make your jaw drop, I don't think so just as I said pertty number =Brain wash to the idear that you going a 100 mps or kph ever whichyou perfer, but actualy doing 40.

**rob3** · 12-10-2003, 09:24 PM

Ok , i get the idea, but RDram 1066 running @ 3486! Is that possible?

**royce** · 12-10-2003, 09:35 PM

so i'm buying the Abit IC7 MAX3 prolly. I am getting this lanparty mobo warrantied then i'm gonna sell it.

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