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Fant I agree with you. Despite all my posting about the technical ins and outs, there is not all that much REAL WORLD improvement in a DC DDR or RDRAM Vs. SC DDR.

Where it will make more of a difference is when you are a hardcore overclocker (Thugsrook type guy). With RDRAM, your overclocked FSB speed is limited to ~ 150 FSB because of available ram. You can clock the FSB faster than the ram can handle. You have to drop from a 4X to a 3X multiplier, which will cripple performance. Basically the same with SC DDR. If you get up past ~166 FSB, you have to drop to a lower multiplier, maybe even 1:1 depending on how good your DDR is. Right now, the best stuff will go to ~ DDR440 or so.

With DC DDR, even if you go to 200 FSB, PC 3200 will cover it. You never have to sacrifice mem speed because of FSB speed.

IMHO, Granite Bay is for the person who wants every last bit of performance out of his overclocked system.
 
fant ,
In my opinion, there is no need for someone who own either PE or 845E to upgrade to Gb mobo. Instead of Gb , they should wait for new prescott p4 with 800 fsb.
 
Yeah while all these faster memory technologies sound cool and cutting edge....really they dont provide much performance improvement and are only really worth the money to those who need it to overclock...but in that case you could save $100 on the faster memory technology and just get a faster processor which would certainly boost your performance more than buying a faster platform and o/c'ing your memory...
 
Good news for people eyeing the P4G8X...

From Googlegear:
Dear customer,

The requested item will be available on our website next week.

Thank you,
Googlegear customer service
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- Hope it's for real this time 🙂
- Aldaris
 
Originally posted by: Aldaris2002
Good news for people eyeing the P4G8X...

From Googlegear:
Dear customer,

The requested item will be available on our website next week.

Thank you,
Googlegear customer service
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Did they quote you a price??????

I have a $215.00 quote from PowerStartPC.com for the P4G8X deluxe mobo (ETA 12/15). $192.00 for the reg. model... (ETA 12/15)

Goooglegear seems a little pricey on certain stuff, but maybe for a good reason(?)...
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Nope. They said they didn't have that information, but I expect it to be about $200, just a little more than PowerStartPC. I expect another change in PowerStartPC's E.T.A. on the P4G8X as their current (12/15) falls on a Sunday, which is a very unlikely day to recieve shipments. I expect them to start coming in by next Wednesday (12/18), if its for real this time...

Just my opinion
Aldaris
 
Originally posted by: Aldaris2002
Nope. They said they didn't have that information, but I expect it to be about $200, just a little more than PowerStartPC. I expect another change in PowerStartPC's E.T.A. on the P4G8X as their current (12/15) falls on a Sunday, which is a very unlikely day to recieve shipments. I expect them to start coming in by next Wednesday (12/18), if its for real this time...

Just my opinion
Aldaris
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Does any one know the ETA for Gigabyte's 8INXP? Much appreciated.
 
Does any one know the ETA for Gigabyte's 8INXP? Much appreciated.

This is the response I received from Googlegear regarding Gigabyte's GA-8INXP.

Dear customer,

Unfortunately we do not take pre-orders. This item should be available on our website sometime next week.

Thank you,
Googlegear customer service
 
My issue with 845PE systems is that they dropped support for ECC. I don't want to overclock; I think existing technologies give all the performance I need for my purposes. I want to build a rock-solid stable system. I was planning to build a new system with ECC and mirrored RAID. But the 845PE doesn't handle ECC memory.

Mushkin has PC2100 2:2:2 ECC memory which seems like a good match for GB boards (though they haven't tested it yet).
 
ECC memory can be used on the E7500 chipset with the Zeon. So, with Granite Bay it may be just a matter of confirmation. And at the most, a minor upgrade may be needed.

E7500 article @anandtech

Update: Gigabyte's site says that the 8INXP does support ECC. And, i would think that the P4G8X shouldn't be any different.
Gigabyte
 
Thanks Pomoney and Elvis2. Next week will be the 3rd week of Dec. I'm Crossing my fingers, I got 2 systems on hold (one for me and one for my sister) that needs to be done. 🙂

BTW, shouldn't this thread be stickied to the top? 😎
 
It's probably nothing, but I was just searching Froogle.Google.com and noticed that TechDepot had the Tyan S2662 posted up and it seems as if they're saying the Tyan is in stock (2-4 weeks shipping), they may just be banking on the fact the board will be in in the next 2 or 3 weeks and will ship it when it comes, but thought it was worth looking at anyways...

http://www.solutions4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1460142&affid=10000484

If you compare it to the Gigabyte 8INXP, you can see there's no shipping information or picture at all for this board.

http://www.techdepot.com/product.asp?productid=1460142&affid=10000485

If anyone finds out anything, post it.

-Aldaris
 
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