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Check and make sure that the board doesn't have a Promise SATA controller
chip as it is not compatable with SATA optical drives.
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John Mitchell
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"bmcky" <louie_louie2003@nospam.yahPoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:06:53 GMT, th <someguy@somewhere.se> wrote:
>
>>bmcky wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:22:26 -0600, Last Boy Scout <eggbtr@ezl.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>_BNC wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Primary differences between those two boards? I'm intending to use
>>>>>them
>>>>>with a Northwood 3Ghz+, if that's a factor.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The P4C800-E has an intel Technology called PAT. Look that up on an
>>>>Intel Site. It is a technology that works when you are using DDR400 Ram
>>>>or higher and an 800Mhz Processor that can enable a slightly faster
>>>>memory access. It usually only represents a 1-5% increase. If you are
>>>>playing a game you will not notice it, because it is not that important
>>>>for video games. A better video card is more important than the faster
>>>>Processor. Both are considered about equally important, so getting a
>>>>really fast processor for $400.00 and buying a $100 video card is a bad
>>>>idea. Try to spend about equally on both. Some would say you can get
>>>>by with a $120 processor and a $300 video card.
>>>>
>>>>There is no real difference between the two motherboards. I have read
>>>>where it is possible to enable PAT on both motherboards. However, the
>>>>P4C is the newer chipset.
>>>>
>>>>My advice is to look at the other items on the motherboard. Look at
>>>>what kind of chips are used for the integrated Sound and the integrated
>>>>Ethernet. There is not that much difference. Some motherboards may
>>>>have 3com for ethernet or some other brand of chip. Both motherboards
>>>>are good solid products.
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought PAT wasn't compatible with 875 chipsets ? Just asking.
>>>
>>The contrary, PAT was supposed to be an 875 chipset feature only, but
>>ASUS managed to enable/emulate it with the 865 chipset. Just Google a
>>bit and you'll find dozens of articles on the topic! Some people claim
>>that the 865 and 875 chips are actually the same design, just packaged
>>differently (with some speed screening on the 875 chips).
>
> th -
>
> Son of a gun, you're exactly right (at least so far). I
> googled as you suggested and saw some articles on the 875 chipsets.
> For some reason I thought I'd seen something posted saying you
> couldn't PAT on an 875 board. So now its enabled along with the 20%
> o/c option and running smoothly. The acid test will be tomorrow when
> I try to do an SVCD render using TMPG on its highest settings.
>
> I had ram timing problems on this setup when I first got it.
> It's using 512mgs (2x 256 sticks) of Corsair (LLPT) dual channel
> memory . Seems as how it wouldn't auto-configure the timings and had
> to swap them back to Corsair. The replacement chips wouldn't run on
> this at the original advertised settings (something like 2-2-2-5 or 6
> IIRC). Next time I won't be an early adopter, I picked this up about
> 3 weeks after they were released. Thanks for the info.
>
> bmcky
>
> Boston, MA
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