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Barry, if you aren't going to go dual cpu, then check out the P4C800-E
Deluxe. It has handled everything that I have thrown at it without a
hiccup. Currently running a 2.4c at 265mhz FSB and 4200 ram running at 1:1.
Stable and a plethora of on-board goodies. Will run any of the current
chips with the latest bios. I am thinking about pulling my 2.6c out of my
other box to see what it will do. HTH.
Silvertip
"Leythos" <void@nowhere.org> wrote in message
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> In article <4172ABEC.6080506@neo.rr.com>, WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com
> says...
> > Assume high-end gaming. Money is always an object, but this isn't a
> > "budget" system. Add to the requirements, "Intel chipset". I'm asking
> > this question for someone else. The thinking was P4C800E-deluxe, but I
> > want to know if there's a better choice. Also, it must support socket
> > 478 and it must support, for now, a 533 MHz FSB (an existing CPU is
> > being used, for the time being, although it may be replaced later).
>
> Have you considered a DUAL CPU board? While the second CPU does not
> benefit many games, it does allow the OS to off-load many tasks that are
> running in the background while playing games, and that does make the
> system faster.
>
> I was running a Dual Celeron 500Mhz system for a long time playing
> Counter Strike at 90FPS with a quality video card under Windows 2000.
>
> For my own game machine I use a ASUS PC-DL Deluxe motherboard with Dual
> Xeon 2.8ghz CPU's and Windows XP Professional - I have a 9200SE video
> card and get about 90FPS all the time when playing CS (it's the only
> game I play on-line).
>
> I also use the same machine for designing networks, web sites,
> applications, and even run MS SQL 2000 on it.
>
> If games are your only consideration, there are a lot of things other
> than the motherboard you need to consider - like the Video Card and how
> it interacts with the specific games you play. Not all cards perform as
> well with different games.
>
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