Diff. between Asus p4p800 and Asus p4c800 mobos?

[Zeitgeist]

I know the p4p800 has the 865PE intel chipset and the p4c800 chipset has the 875PE intel chipset.

What is the difference between these? The price between the 2 is rather big and I am not sure what
one I should get for a system.

 

[Flakk]

i'd go with the 865 for the $50 (approx) savings since asus figured out how to basically mimick the speed boost the 875 chipset was supposed to offer. The only real remaining advantage of the 875 is ECC memory support which most users will not need. In many cases the 865 outperforms the 875. In any case it's so close you may just want to save yourself the cash since there is no real advantage.

 

[klc314]

I second the P4P800, very sweet board. Out of the box the thing is solid and fast, and you can pretty much play with it endlessly. I'm not sure Sandra scores mean much, but going from a 2.4 533, to a 2.4 800 is a difference I could see in opening apps. Not being much of a gamer, I really appreciate the speed I see in the OS, translates to everyday kind of stuff. I'm still playing around with all the bios settings, but basically the AI overclocking features seem to work pretty well. No special cooling or anything, and no problem at all using AI to go up 20% to almost 2.9, and moving over to manual no problem at 3.0, all with no odd OS action. The P4P800 Deluxe also has the Intel raid function, which has worked really well for me with 2 Seagate 80gig SATA drives. It's a very impressive board all the way around, I'm glad I chose it.

 

[Fallengod]

Originally posted by: Zeitgeist
I know the p4p800 has the 865PE intel chipset and the p4c800 chipset has the 875PE intel chipset.

What is the difference between these? The price between the 2 is rather big and I am not sure what
one I should get for a system.

Just an Idea, you could try looking on the website and check out that BIG Motherboard shootout guide from a bit ago...