Which mobo should I get?

[Lothar1974]

My P4S800D - E Deluxe crapped out and I cannot afford to update everything. Trying to get one of these boards to replace mine. Is there any other board thats better than these two? Asus brand that is? Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!!

Lothar

 

[zagood]

I had excellent luck with the P4P800-SE, p4 3.0e ran at 3.9ghz daily. Great board. I think the main difference is that the E-Deluxe has an additional raid controller and better onboard sound. Don't know as much about the 875 chipset.

-z

 

[D3xx]

Wouldnt a board with a more recent chipset be better?

 

[nitromullet]

Either of the boards you mentioned are generally considered superior to the one they will replace. The P4P/C boards are Intel chipset boards, as opposed to the SiS chipset used in the P4S boards. I would opt for the P4P800-E Deluxe. I built a rig on based on a P4P800 Deluxe when they first came out (the "E" model came later), and I was very pleased. I was so happy with it that I picked up a P4P800 SE for a build for my wife, and she's still uses it today with a P4 2.6 Northwood. The P4C800 is technically supposed to be a higher end board because it uses the 875PE chipset instead of the 865PE, but it was pretty much agreed that the very slight gain in performance was not worth the price difference between the P4C and the P4P.

Originally posted by: D3xx
Wouldnt a board with a more recent chipset be better?

...not if he wants to keep using his AGP card. Also, the socket has since changed, so it's not as if he went with a newer chipset that was compatible with his cpu that it would in any way help his upgrade path.

 

[Lothar1974]

nitromullet:

I agree, I have been reading about the two boards and the P4P800-E Deluxe sound like the best option. Thanks for the input!