Gonna spend some money today - Take a look

[Mister T]

P4 2.53ghz (533 FSB) Retail
Gigabyte GA-8iEXP i845E w/ audio, LAN, ATA 133 RAID, 6 USB 2.0, DUAL BIOS
(2) Corsair DDR 3200 512mb sticks

any last minute suggestions?

 

[Atrail]

Go for it. 😀

 

[Duvie]

Good luck....I hope the gigabyte works out for you in the coing realm...If no ocing you should be just fine, but the memory I see listed tells me you are going for 3ghz, right??

 

[Mister T]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Good luck....I hope the gigabyte works out for you in the coing realm...If no ocing you should be just fine, but the memory I see listed tells me you are going for 3ghz, right??

what is coing?

 

[littlegohan]

I think he meant coming

I suggest getting the 2.4b instead
Is alot cheaper and the performance difference isnt too great

 

[Mister T]

what is the 2.4b?

sorry for the ignorance.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1672&p=9

and won the editors choice:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1672&p=17

sounds like a decent o'clocking board:

"The 8IEXP is one of the most flexible 845E overclocking boards available on the market today. Gigabyte has included their very own patented overclocking utility, named EasyTune 4. Using EasyTune 4, you're able to do linear, asynch, or divider adjustments of memory, FSB, AGP, and PCI devices. Voltages for Vcore, Vdimm, and AGP are all adjustable in Windows through EasyTune 4. For more information on EasyTune 4, visit Gigabyte's website.

In addition to all of this, you can adjust your AGP/PCI buses in 1MHz intervals anywhere from 33MHz/66MHz to 50MHz/100MHz in the BIOS, and thankfully there's an AGP/PCI lock which should be thrilling for all those overclockers out there. In addition, you can adjust your FSB all the way up to a staggering 355MHz through the BIOS."

 

[bigboxes]

I'm guessing that Duvie meant ocing, not coming. He just transposed the "o" & the "c".

 

[Duvie]

I meant ocing....I also had seen some threads in the cpu/overclocking forum where I mainly hang and it seemed as some were having issues....

It definitely does seem to have all the bells and whistles...

I once bought the MSI Ultra ARU cause it got great reviews and it was a dog...restart issues...major undervolting...fuzzy logic (there overclocking program) didn't work....Don't trust too many of these reviews alone...Back them up with responses in here.

Also I remember how wel the gigabyte did in reviews for the i845d mobos and then remember all the ppl buying them and then bailing on them...

Also I would never you that windows based programs like Easytune....Do it in the bios...

 

[Viper GTS]

The gigabyte is a nice board, I have the same one.

Takes my 1.8 to 2.4 with no trouble whatsoever.

Viper GTS

 

[MacDude]

That looks like a great buy. I will be buying a P4 2.4B with Gigabyte 8IEX and DDR 333Mhz. How does the Gigabyte 8IEX compare to the Gigabyte 8IEXP? I didn't think that DDR 333Mhz was even supported! Is it a simple question of changing the memory clock in the mobo?

 

[PuppettMaster001]

looks nice. good luck - me jealous :disgust:

 

[Mister T]

alright, I pulled the trigger fellas....

also picked up a Linksys BEFSR41