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Super Computer
I currently have an ASUS P4P800-VM. What I would like is a dual P4
ASUS P4P800-VM with onboard raid controller. I know this doesn't exist. I don't know who to ask and am hoping that someone can help me out. I've listed what I think is what I want: - dual xeon 2.4 GHz - 3.2GHz each - 800 MHz FSB (I don't think this exists, I can only find 533 MHz) - 533+ Bus Speed (I don't know what fast is for this) - 1 Gig or more (but as little as 512 Meg) ECC Memory PC3200 DDR (or what ever is the fastest) - AGP 8X slot - PCI slots at 100 MHz (or faster) - SATA and IDE with Raid 1/0 capabilities on both - would like audio and network part of motherboard as well (with option to disable) It is for a personal machine, but I want this thing to smoke. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Look at a Dual Opteron (AMD) board...
It may not have the retail "speed" in Mhz that the P4 has, but it certainly will smoke !!! That, with XP 64bit version and you wont know what to do with yourself... - NuTs "kalamazoo" wrote in message om... I currently have an ASUS P4P800-VM. What I would like is a dual P4 ASUS P4P800-VM with onboard raid controller. I know this doesn't exist. I don't know who to ask and am hoping that someone can help me out. I've listed what I think is what I want: - dual xeon 2.4 GHz - 3.2GHz each - 800 MHz FSB (I don't think this exists, I can only find 533 MHz) - 533+ Bus Speed (I don't know what fast is for this) - 1 Gig or more (but as little as 512 Meg) ECC Memory PC3200 DDR (or what ever is the fastest) - AGP 8X slot - PCI slots at 100 MHz (or faster) - SATA and IDE with Raid 1/0 capabilities on both - would like audio and network part of motherboard as well (with option to disable) It is for a personal machine, but I want this thing to smoke. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Thanks for your reply. I've looked into it, but am hesitant mainly
because I would be running mainly Windows 2000 Pro, but will also have another drive with Windows 98 on it to play games with. ASUS isn't much help, they said, "look at our server page", but nothing seems as good as the one you pointed out (the AMD Dual Opteron). I understand there is a new Intel Nocona which meets what I'm looking for, but it isn't available till next month or so from what I understand. "NuTCrAcKeR" wrote in message ... Look at a Dual Opteron (AMD) board... It may not have the retail "speed" in Mhz that the P4 has, but it certainly will smoke !!! That, with XP 64bit version and you wont know what to do with yourself... - NuTs "kalamazoo" wrote in message om... I currently have an ASUS P4P800-VM. What I would like is a dual P4 ASUS P4P800-VM with onboard raid controller. I know this doesn't exist. I don't know who to ask and am hoping that someone can help me out. I've listed what I think is what I want: - dual xeon 2.4 GHz - 3.2GHz each - 800 MHz FSB (I don't think this exists, I can only find 533 MHz) - 533+ Bus Speed (I don't know what fast is for this) - 1 Gig or more (but as little as 512 Meg) ECC Memory PC3200 DDR (or what ever is the fastest) - AGP 8X slot - PCI slots at 100 MHz (or faster) - SATA and IDE with Raid 1/0 capabilities on both - would like audio and network part of motherboard as well (with option to disable) It is for a personal machine, but I want this thing to smoke. Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Hello --
Have a look at the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe. It looks like it has every thing you want in a workstation board, but the PCI slots are 32-bit/33MHz. Unless you are building a monster file server, I doubt the PCI slots will be an issue. Best, Rohan Beckles -- ABIT VP6 Intel "Tualatin" PIII-S 1.4GHz (1 off) 1GB SDRAM Seagate Barracuda II 20.4GB ABIT Siluro Ti4200 OTES 128MB |
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Rohan Beckles wrote in message ...
Hello -- Have a look at the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe. It looks like it has every thing you want in a workstation board, but the PCI slots are 32-bit/33MHz. Unless you are building a monster file server, I doubt the PCI slots will be an issue. Best, Rohan Beckles Thanks for your suggestion Rohan. I've been looking at the following motherboards: ASUS PCH-DL ASUS PC-DL ASUS PC-DL Deluxe (the one you mentioned) ASUS PP=DLW They all look pretty good, but the one you mentioned (ASUS PC-DL Deluxe) seems to be the best. I just can't decide/figure out whether I would be better off with a dual xeon, dual Opteron (both running a 533 FSB and DDR333 Ram with 2 CPUs) or a single P4 with an 800FSB and DDR400 Ram. (In any case I would get CPUs running in the 3GHz range.) It seems the more I look into this the harder it is to decide... What I want is the fastest machine I can buy that will work for Windows 98 -- Windows 2000 (mainly) -- Windows XP and that is absurdly fast (but less than about $3500). Its for games (but I understand only some games will make use of the 2 CPUs), but its also for a rather large mySQL database that holds a lot of stock data. The tables and queries are optimized, so the only way to increase performance (its already pretty fast) is by getting a machine that smokes... (I would swap the drives, depending on what I want to do with it - games / database stuff / normal email and word processing.) |
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KZoo check out www.alienware.com
They have what you looking for, maybe for near twice the money, your offering. However your yet to decide what your going to do with the speed may as well visit them. I have built 3 fast computers. 1 Intel setup and 2 AMD setups . The most helpful online store i found was atacom.com. I prefer AMD. Now running the Abit AV8 /AMD 939 pin 64 bit Athlon 5300 K8T800 Pro w/ stock retail box, 2247 mhz not oc'd fan/ 1 gig Corsair Dual channel DDR Nvidia FX 5200 Creative SB Audigy 2ZS /Dual 80 gig Seagate satas running even & odd. You can't take it with you, so spend it. "kalamazoo" wrote in message om... Rohan Beckles wrote in message ... Hello -- Have a look at the ASUS PC-DL Deluxe. It looks like it has every thing you want in a workstation board, but the PCI slots are 32-bit/33MHz. Unless you are building a monster file server, I doubt the PCI slots will be an issue. Best, Rohan Beckles Thanks for your suggestion Rohan. I've been looking at the following motherboards: ASUS PCH-DL ASUS PC-DL ASUS PC-DL Deluxe (the one you mentioned) ASUS PP=DLW They all look pretty good, but the one you mentioned (ASUS PC-DL Deluxe) seems to be the best. I just can't decide/figure out whether I would be better off with a dual xeon, dual Opteron (both running a 533 FSB and DDR333 Ram with 2 CPUs) or a single P4 with an 800FSB and DDR400 Ram. (In any case I would get CPUs running in the 3GHz range.) It seems the more I look into this the harder it is to decide... What I want is the fastest machine I can buy that will work for Windows 98 -- Windows 2000 (mainly) -- Windows XP and that is absurdly fast (but less than about $3500). Its for games (but I understand only some games will make use of the 2 CPUs), but its also for a rather large mySQL database that holds a lot of stock data. The tables and queries are optimized, so the only way to increase performance (its already pretty fast) is by getting a machine that smokes... (I would swap the drives, depending on what I want to do with it - games / database stuff / normal email and word processing.) |
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