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Ok go easy on this newbie. Barebones question Building my first
I have narrowed my search for my first barebones kit down to one with
the asus P4S800 and one with an MSI KT4AV-L. I am by no means a serious gamer or a serious compugeek. I have experience installing hard drives, CD drives, memory, video cards etc but no experience with a new board. The two barebones systems I'm planning to start from are http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...450&CatId=1223 and http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...2242&CatId=114 I'm planning to transfer most of the guts from my old system (hard drive (maxtor 40gb), cd drives (HP 9500 cd writer and Benq DVD drive), vid (ATI Radeon 9500) and sound cards (Soundblaster Live 5.0) etc) I guess what I'm asking is what system will allow me to jump into the 21st century from the current dinosaur I'm using (600mb athlon processor and a gigabyte board) And what is the real meat and potatoes differences between these two systems (other than the obvious 200 dollar price diff) and would they mean anything to me? Thank you so much for not laughing at the newbie builder. |
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the KT has no memory ,,so you have to buy a stick of RAM...if the CPU is a
Barton core that is better yet..but the board would be lacking a bit..I sold my KT4VL MSI board.the KT4 series of chips has a few issues..besides for what I just read of this..I priced it out separately with a DFI KT6 board and came up cheaper..research the components and put it together yourself..it is cheaper in the long run. |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:47:49 -0600, Ed wrote:
On 4 Nov 2004 14:55:00 -0800, (Arnie Berger) wrote: snip 2- Don't mix ATI videocards and nVidia chipsets, there are known incompatibilities. What sort of incompatibilities? Ed Yes, what kind of incompatibilities? I'm presently running a new system with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and an ATI All-in-wonder 9600XT, and I'd like to know what to look out for. Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ |
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This person is taking rubbish. I've never experienced any 'incompatibilities
between any chipsets and video cards........ Chris C "Charlie" wrote in message ... On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:47:49 -0600, Ed wrote: On 4 Nov 2004 14:55:00 -0800, (Arnie Berger) wrote: snip 2- Don't mix ATI videocards and nVidia chipsets, there are known incompatibilities. What sort of incompatibilities? Ed Yes, what kind of incompatibilities? I'm presently running a new system with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and an ATI All-in-wonder 9600XT, and I'd like to know what to look out for. Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ |
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"Ed" wrote in message
... | On 4 Nov 2004 14:55:00 -0800, (Arnie Berger) | wrote: | | snip | 2- Don't mix ATI videocards and nVidia chipsets, there are known | incompatibilities. | | What sort of incompatibilities? | Ed | -- | NF3/Radeon 9800 pro | NF2/Radeon DDR 64 vivo | | | I'll throw in my 2 cents also. I have an ATI 9800 Pro running perfectly in an Asus A7N8X-DLX 2.0, an ATI Radeon 8500LE running great in an A7N8X-DLX 2.0, and an older Radeon 32 Meg DDR running in a Biostar M7NCD-PRO mobo. So what is the incompatibility? Answer: there is none. -- Best regards, Kyle |
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"Chris Catt" wrote in message ...
This person is taking rubbish. I've never experienced any 'incompatibilities between any chipsets and video cards........ Chris C Let me quote from my K8N-E Deluxe User Guide: "If installing the ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro series VGA cards, use only the card PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability." Note that "optimum performance" and "overclocking stability" are marketing euphamisms for your computer won't lock up. Others have reported problems with some ATI video cards on this newsgroup. I'm not saying that the ATI/nVidia pair won't work, but if I was starting with a new system, I would try to match parts from the same manufacturer because it would have a higher probablity of working properly together. So Chris, I don't think I was talking rubbish, although my Computer Science students accuse me of it all the time. :-) arnie "Charlie" wrote in message ... On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:47:49 -0600, Ed wrote: On 4 Nov 2004 14:55:00 -0800, (Arnie Berger) wrote: snip 2- Don't mix ATI videocards and nVidia chipsets, there are known incompatibilities. What sort of incompatibilities? Ed Yes, what kind of incompatibilities? I'm presently running a new system with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and an ATI All-in-wonder 9600XT, and I'd like to know what to look out for. Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ |
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On 6 Nov 2004 16:14:39 -0800, (Arnie Berger)
wrote: "Chris Catt" wrote in message ... This person is taking rubbish. I've never experienced any 'incompatibilities between any chipsets and video cards........ Chris C Let me quote from my K8N-E Deluxe User Guide: "If installing the ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro series VGA cards, use only the card PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability." Note that "optimum performance" and "overclocking stability" are marketing euphamisms for your computer won't lock up. Others have reported problems with some ATI video cards on this newsgroup. I'm not saying that the ATI/nVidia pair won't work, but if I was starting with a new system, I would try to match parts from the same manufacturer because it would have a higher probablity of working properly together. So Chris, I don't think I was talking rubbish, although my Computer Science students accuse me of it all the time. :-) arnie Well thanks for the comment, but I'd really like to hear from the "others" that you're referring to. Or at least have a reference to what kind of problem to expect. Your interpretation of the ASUS manual's statement is interesting, but not really helpful, since "others" might as well interpret that they really mean exactly what they are saying. --- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ |
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Charlie wrote:
On 6 Nov 2004 16:14:39 -0800, (Arnie Berger) wrote: "Chris Catt" wrote in message ... This person is taking rubbish. I've never experienced any 'incompatibilities between any chipsets and video cards........ Chris C Let me quote from my K8N-E Deluxe User Guide: "If installing the ATI 9500 or 9700 Pro series VGA cards, use only the card PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overclocking stability." Note that "optimum performance" and "overclocking stability" are marketing euphamisms for your computer won't lock up. Others have reported problems with some ATI video cards on this newsgroup. I'm not saying that the ATI/nVidia pair won't work, but if I was starting with a new system, I would try to match parts from the same manufacturer because it would have a higher probablity of working properly together. So Chris, I don't think I was talking rubbish, although my Computer Science students accuse me of it all the time. :-) arnie Well thanks for the comment, but I'd really like to hear from the "others" that you're referring to. Or at least have a reference to what kind of problem to expect. Your interpretation of the ASUS manual's statement is interesting, but not really helpful, since "others" might as well interpret that they really mean exactly what they are saying. --- Charlie Hoffpauir http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ I remember when the Radeon 9700 Pro was first released there were problems with some motherboards and the very first 9700's. Some of the people had to get new cards with a higher revision to fix the problem, but that was a couple of years ago. You might want to google the videocards.ati group for some of the posts. |
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