What's the Difference between the P4P800 and the P4P800-E?

[svoltmer]

I have the P4P800-E Deluxe and am kinda curious as to the difference between it and the P4P800.
I have 2 sticks of PC3200 512MB in it now, but wonder if it is possible to use anything faster ie: PC4200?

 

[Gamingphreek]

You can use faster memory but no motherboard officially supports it. If you do run it faster than make sure to keep your FSB in sync with your memory or youll suffer a performance hit.

The difference is that it includes more software, it comes with another 2 SATA ports with Promise RAID. It also has better onboard audio. Also the -E is prescott ready.

-Kevin

 

[svoltmer]

Please forgive my ignorance, but this is the first computer that I have been able to OC (motherboard restrictions before), so I don't think I know what you mean by keeping my FSB in "sync" with the memory. It has a 800Mhz FSB so what would I do to sync it with, lets say, 500Mhz DDRAM?
Thanks for your help!

 

[Gamingphreek]

Well here i spew it out for ya

The pentiums FSB is quad pumped at 200mhz. So it is essentially 200x4. Well the DDR is dual pumped to achieve DDR400. So its 200x2. To achieve the performance advantages when running the two the same you just need to make sure that when you increase one you increase the other. So for 500Mhz DDR youll want the FSB at 250 (250x4=1000FSB but i doubt youll get that OC) (250x2=500mhz DDR) See

-Kevin