Cant decide between the two P4P800 Deluxe or P4C800-E Deluxe

[Bockscar1]

Hi,

Guys and Gals I've been reading all the posts of about different boards and from what I read P4P800 is not faster than the P4C800 whats the difference...Also from what I read there is a lot of problems with the P4C800-Deluxe and asus is coming out with a board P4C800-E Deluxe with a different promise raid controller ICH5R am I correct or whats the difference between the orig or the update one (P4C800-E Deluxe) thats coming out on the 16th of June...Thanks in Advance

 

[mac35]

I would wait for the big motherboard roundupthat Anandtech.com will be having today or tommorrow. I believe both the P4P800 and the P4C800 are in it so you should be able to see which is faster. Im not sure of the differences between the original P4C800 and the new one coming out soon, but I have heard that the new P4C800 will have the Gigabit ethernet and the ICH5R southbridge instead of 10/100 and the ICH5 southbridge.

Mac

 

[First]

P4P800 Deluxe.

 

[Shuelessjo]

Originally posted by: Evan Lieb
P4P800 Deluxe.

That is what I will be ordering shortly.

 

[mac35]

Hm I have a sneaking suspicion that the P4P800 might 'win' the roundup thats coming up......if I had to bet thats what I would pick anyways.

Mac

 

[gramboh]

Only get the P4C800 if you need to use ECC memory. PAT is not even close to worth the extra cost (MAM on the P4P800 seems to do the same thing? Hopefully the roundup will clarify this). Also for the P4P800, only get the deluxe if you need IDE RAID and/or Firewire (the non deluxe has SATA RAID). Spend the money you saved on better/faster RAM or something else (just don't save it lol).

 

[NordicNINE]

I wish the Asus boards would have used the Intel gigabit chip to take advantage of CSA on the 865 & 875, then I would have easily picked them. Now, I'm trying to decide between the Abit IC7-G & the DFI 875Pro.

I think getting the serial ATA & the NIC off the PCI bus is nice.