845 vs 850 motherboards

[gtomas]

I want to upgrade my current motherboard to a P4 motherboard, but since im new to the whole thing, i was wondering what the main diffrence was between 845 based and 850 base chipset motherboards was. Im primarily gonna use my PC for gaming and im trying to upgrade it accordingly. Thanks for any help

 

[newbiepcuser]

This might help.

P4 chipset comparison.

 

[Athlon4all]

850 all da way because RDRAM is faster than 845-D especially in gaming, and plus RDRAM is the same price as DDR now. The best 850 board is Abit TH7II, but another great one is Asus P4T-E.

 

[abaez]

The SiS 645 can't be denied though. Coming in with an incredibly low price tag, and new DDR-333 memory support, the 645 provides an absolutely exceptional bank for the buck ratio. The 645 with DDR-333 runs at about 95% of the speed of the i850 / RDRAM platform, but only costs around 75% as much. Stability and incompatibility issues? None that we've seen. It's just a great little chipset for not a whole lot of money.

I dunno about rdram/850. I've been doing alot of research, and with the new 1.6ghz northwoods doing 2.2ghz with retail cooling here., I'm VERY inclined to go with the Epox 4SDA+ which has some great overclocking features.