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These 2400+ XP's are pretty nice...*Edit* 210mhz FSB!

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Originally posted by: Technonut
The Review of the A7N8X that I read really did not impress me much...
Not as high as I expected. With my overclocked Athlon XP @ 2.2Ghz (12x185), these are the memory scores I archived. 2604/2324.
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Asus always sucks booty with memory bandwidth vs. other motherboards with same chipset. I'll never buy another Asus after my a7v333 board.

 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
I'm really not a big fan of 3DMark, but I ran it for the hell of it. I was surpised to break 11K with a 8500...

3D Mark2K1

🙂
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Nice... 🙂 With my retail 128MB Radeon 8500 OC'ed, I made 4th in my processor class at 10864. (MP2100+ @ 2.0GHz) I was 3rd, but someone grabbed an 11424 since I checked last...
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D


Bah..Asus. I'll wait for the Epox 8RDA+ myself... 😉 🙂
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Good man. 🙂 I too am waiting for the right nforce2 board to come out but I have yet to see one with onboard RAID. Am I going to have to buy an add-in RAID card for my next mobo?



 
chaintech has one w/ onboard ide raid i think. not sure if it's full raid, or the half serial ata raid (where it's serial ata raid, or one serial + one parallel)

the asus has serial ata raid 🙂
 
Originally posted by: lnguyen
chaintech has one w/ onboard ide raid i think. not sure if it's full raid, or the half serial ata raid (where it's serial ata raid, or one serial + one parallel)

the asus has serial ata raid 🙂
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Hmm, I was hoping that one of the top tier manufacturers would offer an nforce2 board with onboard RAID. The Chaintech board is "cute" but I am not getting a warm fuzzy while thinking about it. And as for Asus, I looked at their site last night and I didn't see RAID on thier nforce2 board. Maybe it has Serial ATA RAID and I missed it, but I'm not buying into that technology (Serial ATA) until it has matured such that it is a worthy upgrade over my ATA133 drives. Besides, they (Asus) charge too damn much for their products.
 
Originally posted by: lnguyen
chaintech has one w/ onboard ide raid i think. not sure if it's full raid, or the half serial ata raid (where it's serial ata raid, or one serial + one parallel)

the asus has serial ata raid 🙂
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The BIG problem with the Chaintech is that instead of using the integrated Nvidia Soundstorm Audio, Chaintech decided that we would be better served with C-media -ultra cheapo- sound. The board has a ton of good features, but the sound thing is the nail in the coffin, and turns this board into a pos. (of course thats my opinion, I could be wrong)

 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Ok guys, Seti results are in.. Here's the last few WU's I've completed on the new rig..(copied from Seti Spy's log)

Processing Time:

2.421
2.133
2.154
2.423
2.138
2.422
2.321
2.127


Looks like I'm flirting with the 2hr/wu barrier.. It should be interesting when I can put this in an Nforce2 board with a higher multiplier and the high FSB.. The 2.4ghz level should get pretty close to the 2 hour flat times.. :Q

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like, better than 10 a day!
 
the asus has serial ata raid
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Yeah, of course it's totally handicapped being on the PCI bus. S-ATA won't start to really reach it's pontential until it is natively supported by a Southbridge, and mapped to the HS Northbridge/Southbridge connection. The only real upside I can see to S-ATA right now is the smaller cables.

I'm getting kind of tired of waiting for the Nforce2, so I may snag a Epox 8K9A2+ KT400 and see how it does with my 2400+. It comes with IDE RAID and S-ATA, with seperate controllers instead of the commonly used Promise hybrid chip....not too mention 5.1 sound, onboard LAN, and USB 2.0. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: JSSheridan
FYI, the links at the top don't work anymore. You may consider updating them.

Just so you're aware. Peace.
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Thanks..I edited. Those numbers were from Sandra 2002 Pro, and the second set were from Sandra 2003 Pro, so I just removed the old links. 🙂
 
so on the 2200+'s and higher(t-breds whether a or b) need l3 bridges to be unlocked but a palomino (like my athlon xp 2000+) needs the l1 bridges unlocked? is that right?
 
That Corsair PC3200C2 is some mighty nice RAM isn't it? The new BIOS is great, I've been able to bump the max FSB on my Rev1 Epox 8K3A to 191 MHz FSB from my previous max of 183 MHz. My RAM can run stable higher than that but I start getting some artifacts in DOS (chipset can't handle more?).

Congrats on the nice combination of CPU+FSB overclock! 🙂
 
man, now i'm wishing i had got better ram....

as for sata not being native, yeah i know, but it shouldn't be worse that ata100/133 now. But yeah, i wish asus used a real ide raid controller... i need the extra ports (no need for raid really). the nforce sound is a nice plus, and well, i'm impatient 🙂 Hopefully it doesn't bite me in the ass later... but we'll see. after reading these successes... hopefully i can hit ~2.2ghz@166. ugh.... the waiting is killing me.

btw, for 5.1 sound, i notice some cards use the line in to do center/sub... how exactly does that work?? need a splitter of some sort?
 
Originally posted by: Macro2
RE:"2.2 GHz = 2700+ - correct?"

Based on the bus speed it's probably closer to 3000+ maybe more.

Mac
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2700+ is 2.17GHz at 333MHz FSB. The 2800+ is 2.25GHz at 333MHz FSB. This chip is probably running at a 2800+ level. Peace.
 
RE:"2700+ is 2.17GHz at 333MHz FSB. The 2800+ is 2.25GHz at 333MHz FSB. This chip is probably running at a 2800+ level. Peace."

Except that the Bus speed at 210 makes a lot of difference. Upward. I supposed I could extrapolate it.
 
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