'Lil help... on P4 2.53 Motherboards

[Diggmasta]

First, a little background info...

I'm putting together a new system this month, it'll be my first time doing so. I'm ready to go, and have been looking at whatever I can find on the new AMD 2600's that are coming out "soon". Today I noticed, however... that I can get a P4 2.53 processor for less that what the 2600 chip is supposed to cost.

Here I was, all set and waiting, reading every motherboard review I could for AMD stuff, and now I'm considering Intel. I've got to leave for work shortly, but in the half-hour I've been scouring the 'net, I've only found a handful of boards that state clearly that they support 2.53 Ghz chips. (Come to think of it though, I haven't seen ANY clearly stating that they'll run an AMD 2600...I've just assumed that info would make itself available once they hit the shelves...)

I'm also not clear on what RDRAM is all about, I was looking to get my hands on some DDR 333Mhz for the AMD, but I'm not sure what to do for Intel. There also seems to be a lot of choice as far as chipsets for Intel are concerned.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

 

[o1die]

The asus p4s8x (eta about sept 12 or 13) is a good choice for ddram; it comes with serial ata and agp 8x support. Read the article on sis 648 in Tom's hardware guide. Reviews of this board are available at ocworkbench and the guru of 3d. Rdram is your best performance choice for 533 fsb p4's, if you're willing to spend $50-75 more for the motherboard with 2 sticks of pc1066. For a list of Intel 850e chipset boards, go to pricewatch, select motherboards, and in "search category" type Intel 850e. Tom's hardware guide also has an article "warp speed with rambus; six boards for pc1066" (under mainboard guide) that may help you select a board.

 

[VSEKH]

Any motherboard with the 850e chipset will work with the 2.53 P4 if you are going to get RDram memory(will cost a little more money). If you are looking to get DDR333 Ram, then look towards 845G or SIS648 chipset motherboards. I can tell you from experience that the 2.53 P4 works on the Asus P4T533-C(850e chipset), Epox 4G4a+(845G chipset) and Abit SR7-8X(SIS648 chipset) motherboard. Good luck on whatever you chose.

 

[Sevenhunt]

DDR or RDRAM, well rdrampc1066 beats ddr, but its awfullt ************* expensive
DDR 333 (pc2700) on a i845G board beats most of the rdram, only the newest rdram pc1066 can beat the ddr pc2700.

So for RDRAM: ASUS P4T533-C
For DDR: ASUS P4T533-V
or EPOX 4G4A+

I choose these DDR boards because they`ve got the i845G chipset, which is the best chipset to get on a P4 board with DDR.

 

[jilliew]

Here is my reply to a similar thread:

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