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More info?)
Hi Bob,
Any issues with the Via chipset? I had an AMD 1 ghz with the Via
complement and had a host of minor (poor disk performance) to more
serious issue like weird reboots and incompatibilities with some video
cards.
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:36:19 -0400, "Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@comcast.net>
wrote:
>I have no experience with the board, but I'd assume that it's good. (I had
>good performance and stability with a P4P800, which is a similar board but
>for Socket 478.)
>
>Just to be sure, are you aware that the P5P800 is an 865PE board with an LGA
>775 socket? It does not use PCI-E graphics, or DDR2 memory. From my point of
>view, those could both be advantages, as PCI-E seems not to offer advantages
>over AGP at this time, and DDR2 likewise may not be better than DDR at its
>present clock frequencies. (Plus, DDR2 may cost more than DDR, although the
>prices may become more equal as the DDR2 share of the market expands.)
>
>My own system, for the past four weeks, has been an A8V with an Athlon 64
>3500+. I wanted to get the most out of an expensive AGP graphics cards
>(Geforce 6800 GT), and this seemed like the best upgrade for the money. This
>is my first AMD based system, and it seems to have been a good choice.
>
>HTH.
>
>Bob Knowlden
>
>Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
>"Driekes" <driekes@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
>news:417bfbb4$0$78772$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>> I'm looking for a budget P4 s775 system and I saw the Asus P5P800 for a
>> nice price. Is it a good choice? Most importend is stability. Or if you
>> have better choises, let me now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Werner
>>
>