Recent content by papalion

The Xigmatek is an excellent choice for a cooler but the TIM you chose, although good is silicone-based and will cause the copper heat pipes to oxidize. If you are using a cooler with a copper base or copper pipes that are in direct contact w/ the CPU heat spreader, you should use a...

True, the 9450 has a higher multiplier than the 9300. They both run on the same FSB but the 9450 is clocked higher. However, the 6600 has a higher multiplier than both because it is clocked at 2.4 GHz on a FSB of 1066, while the 9300 runs @ 2.5 on 1333. Do the math. Of course this is all...

I agree. Without benchmarks, just on specs alone the 9450 looks like it sits in the sweet spot of bang for buck right now. If, however, you choose to go with the less expensive chip, consider that the 6600 would most likely be a better bet than the 9300. Both are about the same price but the...

I checked out newegg.com and the adapters are 30 bucks each, which means for two adapters i have to shell out 60 smackers! For that price i could get a separate RAID controller with two ports. Plus, i could have gotten the ASUS P4PE w/o RAID for $30 less than i paid for the P4PE/L/R/SATA. I...

I had no idea they actually made Parallel-Serial ATA adapters. Now that I know this I am not bummed. I do think that if they were going to include anything in the box it should have been the adapters. They could have kept their SATA cables being that there are no SATA drives yet and when they...

I decided to get the ASUS P4PE MB instead of the ABIT IT7 MAX2 V.2 because the ASUS board has a coaxial digital audio output and the Abit has only Toslink/optical. I have been having serious concerns about the RAID controller on the P4PE. See my other post on this issue. P4PE STINKS Does...

I just purchased the ASUS P4PE/L/R/SATA for the new system i am building for myself. Eventhough i have used only Abit boards in all my other system builds for the last 5 years, i chose this board over the Abit IT7 MAX2 V.2 because the IT7 lack a coaxial digital audio output which i needed to...

I just ordered the ASUS P4PE/L/R MB and intend to set up my two WD 100GB Special addition HDDs using RAID 0 configuration. However, after reading the manual it didn't loook like this was possible. It says specifically that both drives must be set to Master but the board only had one RAID IDE...