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Old June 15th 04, 01:48 AM
kalamazoo
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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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Old June 15th 04, 04:13 AM
NuTCrAcKeR
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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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Old June 16th 04, 11:21 PM
kalamazoo
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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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Old June 27th 04, 03:06 PM
Rohan Beckles
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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

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Intel "Tualatin" PIII-S 1.4GHz (1 off)
1GB SDRAM
Seagate Barracuda II 20.4GB
ABIT Siluro Ti4200 OTES 128MB

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Old July 3rd 04, 01:20 PM
kalamazoo
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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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Old August 7th 04, 10:06 AM
P4_Squisher
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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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