On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:56:51 +0200, "The Lone Gunman"
wrote:
Tony Hill wrote:
: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:20:34 +0200, "The Lone Gunman"
: wrote:
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: Perfectly fine for Windows stuff, 2D work and whatnot. Good
: picture quality on my 19" LCD using the built-in DVI
: connection. Performance for gaming stinks though, worse than
: my old ATI Radeon 9200. I plan on making use of the
: motherboard's PCI-Express 16x slot in the near future.
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?m...2=101& l3=296
Hey Tony, I was hoping you'd chime in here. So you bought the exact same
board? Are you happy with it? Any caveats?
Based on the 1 month that I've had it, I've been very happy with the
board. I haven't encountered any serious issues yet, though I can't
claim to have tested anywhere near everything yet. The BIOS seems
decent, it has all the standard features. Probably a bit light on the
overclocking features for some people's liking, but I don't much
bother with that. On-board sound works well too with decent sound
quality, though I currently have an add-in card so that I can use my
surround sound, headphones and a mic without swapping connectors
around.
WRT to the on-board graphics,
I don't really do any gaming anymore (simply don't have the time sigh),
but I do a lot of editing in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Do you think the built-in
graphics would be suitable for what I do?
I would think so. Your performance might go down by a bit since
you'll be hitting main memory for graphics at the same time as using a
nutoriously memory intensive application. However I doubt it will
cause any problems and the performance hit will probably be in the
range of a few percent. Only other thing to keep in mind is that some
of your main memory will be unusuable for Photoshop stuff.
On another note, what's the absolute fastest memory one could install in
this mobo, keeping in mind that stability is of primary importance? Thanks
in advance.
I've got some DDR2-800 memory in there. This is the only DDR2 memory
I own, so I haven't tried swapping around any other speeds. I've also
left everything at standard auto-detected timings for now at least.
Seems to be working great.
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Tony Hill
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