Asus P4PE & P4S8X

[Bubu]

Anybody own either of these motherboards with a Radeon 9700 pro or All in wonder 9700 pro that could give me a review? Are there any serious conflicts as I have heard quite a bit of incompatibility issues with the P4S8X and the 8x AGP funciton in particular.

TIA...

 

[oldfart]

Get the P4PE. AGP 8x offers no measurable speed increase. Go for the stabilility of the 845PE chipset.

 

[Yvo]

p4pe indeed

1. sis chipsets suck compared to intel (no excuse, no defense that i want to hear about that)
2. reported cold boot issues have become less with new bios updates
3. i own one, so i know about it ;-)

 

[Vegito]

what you need is the p4g8x.. e7205 chipset, dual ddr, 8x, 215 lowest price i found, wont be here till mid feb.

 

[Yvo]

knowing that the granite already has problems i wouldn't recommend it

 

[Vegito]

every chipset has prob.. just how much you want to deal with it ..

 

[emjem]

I have the P4PE. Only about 3 weeks now but it's a great mobo so far. Have P4 2.4 133 overclocked to 2.7, at default voltage. Stable and trouble free. No problems with ATI.

There was one problem however. One of the plastic pins holding the cpu cage to the mobo was not properly seated (thats the way it came in the box) so when I put the heat sink on the cpu one corner of it was not touching the cpu. Even so, the system booted up and ran fine -- but at 65 degrees C !!!.

That was an easy thing for an experienced pc builder to fix, but could have driven a newbie nuts.

None the less, I highly recommend this mobo to this point. Nice features, good utilities. Came with all required hardware, including sata cables. It seems to be one of the last mobos having 6 pci slots (5 useable).

Even upgraded the bios from within Windows -- a great feature.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

8x is a joke.