OT: New mobo and CPU for simming- best bang for the buck

Hi everybody, Finally I'm going for a new rig and would appreciate some advise. I'm looking for a mainstream solution, no budget or high end. Might be a P4 2.4 (up to 800) or a AMD 2600 for instance. Also, VIA chipsets are out of of the question after 2 NBT (nothing but trouble) years with my KT266 A. I already got an ATI 9600 pro. Few things I'm not certain about: How are the P4s compared to the AMDs? 3D Mark says lousy, but that's sponsored by AMD If intel chipset, 845 or 865? Is hyperthreading something not to miss out? What is the boost from P4 400 over 533 to 800? The new AMD 64 (Are that those Bartons?) is something to wait for (until afforadable)? A lot of questions, any help (also partially) is highly appreciated. TIA Jens BTW: I was on a XP 1600+ until now --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95

I'd get a P4 2.8 with hyperthreading (800fsb) and a mobo with either an I865 or I875 chipset. Check Newegg.com. You can get this for about $400. With an Abit, Asus or another decent mobo, you should be able to run that P4 2.8 at about 3.2 or so. Todd "JS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi everybody, > Finally I'm going for a new rig and would appreciate some advise. > > I'm looking for a mainstream solution, no budget or high end. > Might be a P4 2.4 (up to 800) or a AMD 2600 for instance. > > Also, VIA chipsets are out of of the question after 2 NBT (nothing but

trouble) > years with my KT266 A. > > I already got an ATI 9600 pro. > > Few things I'm not certain about: > How are the P4s compared to the AMDs? 3D Mark says lousy, but that'ssponsored

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> by AMD > > If intel chipset, 845 or 865? > > Is hyperthreading something not to miss out? > > What is the boost from P4 400 over 533 to 800? > > The new AMD 64 (Are that those Bartons?) is something to wait for (until > afforadable)? > > A lot of questions, any help (also partially) is highly appreciated. > > TIA > > Jens > > BTW: I was on a XP 1600+ until now > --------------------------------------------- > LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: > http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ > > GPLRank: -14.82 > Monsters of GPL: sub 95

IMHO? ABIT IC7-MAX3 and the best P4 you can afford. Match that board with the P4-2.4C and some good Corsair RAM and if you are into overclocking you WILL be in heaven. Larry "JS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi everybody, > Finally I'm going for a new rig and would appreciate some advise. > > I'm looking for a mainstream solution, no budget or high end. > Might be a P4 2.4 (up to 800) or a AMD 2600 for instance. > > Also, VIA chipsets are out of of the question after 2 NBT (nothing but

trouble) > years with my KT266 A. > > I already got an ATI 9600 pro. > > Few things I'm not certain about: > How are the P4s compared to the AMDs? 3D Mark says lousy, but that'ssponsored

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> by AMD > > If intel chipset, 845 or 865? > > Is hyperthreading something not to miss out? > > What is the boost from P4 400 over 533 to 800? > > The new AMD 64 (Are that those Bartons?) is something to wait for (until > afforadable)? > > A lot of questions, any help (also partially) is highly appreciated. > > TIA > > Jens > > BTW: I was on a XP 1600+ until now > --------------------------------------------- > LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: > http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ > > GPLRank: -14.82 > Monsters of GPL: sub 95

ABIT IC7-MAX3 !! Now that's one sweet board! "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:HIRjb.89420$a16.69826@lakeread01... > IMHO? > > ABIT IC7-MAX3 and the best P4 you can afford. Match that board with the > P4-2.4C and some good Corsair RAM and if you are into overclocking youWILL

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> be in heaven. > > Larry > > "JS" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Hi everybody, > > Finally I'm going for a new rig and would appreciate some advise. > > > > I'm looking for a mainstream solution, no budget or high end. > > Might be a P4 2.4 (up to 800) or a AMD 2600 for instance. > > > > Also, VIA chipsets are out of of the question after 2 NBT (nothing but > trouble) > > years with my KT266 A. > > > > I already got an ATI 9600 pro. > > > > Few things I'm not certain about: > > How are the P4s compared to the AMDs? 3D Mark says lousy, but that's > sponsored > > by AMD > > > > If intel chipset, 845 or 865? > > > > Is hyperthreading something not to miss out? > > > > What is the boost from P4 400 over 533 to 800? > > > > The new AMD 64 (Are that those Bartons?) is something to wait for (until > > afforadable)? > > > > A lot of questions, any help (also partially) is highly appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > Jens > > > > BTW: I was on a XP 1600+ until now > > --------------------------------------------- > > LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: > > http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ > > > > GPLRank: -14.82 > > Monsters of GPL: sub 95 > >

JTBurn wrote: > > ABIT IC7-MAX3 !! Now that's one sweet board! ASUS P4P800, one PC has a 2.4 running at 3.1, the other one has a 2.8 running at 3.5, no fancy cooling or anything like that, no 7200 rpm Delta fans or anything :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

That's great. That good old P4 2.4 was quite an overclocker! Todd "Goy Larsen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > JTBurn wrote: > > > > ABIT IC7-MAX3 !! Now that's one sweet board! > > ASUS P4P800, one PC has a 2.4 running at 3.1, the other one has a 2.8 > running at 3.5, no fancy cooling or anything like that, no 7200 rpm > Delta fans or anything :-) > > > Beers and cheers > (uncle) Goy > "goyl at nettx dot no" > > http://www.theuspits.com > > "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" > --Groucho Marx--

JTBurn wrote: > > That's great. That good old P4 2.4 was quite an overclocker! > Todd Sorry, should have been more specific, it's the "C" models of course, while the 2.4 B was also a good overclocker, I ran mine at 2.8 before I swapped it for this 2.4C, it really can't compare to these new ones The problem is finding memory that is fast enough to keep the FSB and memory at the same speed, and that's not easy with the 2.4 running at 1060 FSB, which would mean a memory speed of 530, the 2.8 runs at 1000 and you can find memory that will run at 500 even if it's expensive :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "goyl at nettx dot no" http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

Thanks Gents for the good advice. Unluckily Abit is quite uncommon here, but I got the message: Quality board, probably Asus, with alotta bells and whistles to play around. Thx again Jens On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:24:58 +0200, Goy Larsen <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip> --------------------------------------------- LWFF Ball Bearing conversion at: http://jensschumi.bravepages.com/ GPLRank: -14.82 Monsters of GPL: sub 95