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What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
money? (like 400 bucks or so)
I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
slowing it down dosen't fix it)
So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
TIA
John

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"John" <user@user.com> wrote in message
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> What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
> over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
> to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
I'm almost sure of this, it's not your overclock.

> because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
When you say video work, do you mean you do a lot of video encoding?
If so, I would do a system wipe (Format) if you can, and start over with
that system.
As for if you do a lot of Video Encoding, I would get an ok speed guess
what? (Intel Pentium 4)
And use your AMD for Video Gaming, AMD's are better for that anyway.
Intel's are good for Video Capture/Encoding & some editing.
Hope this helps..
RavingRaichu. ;-) :-)

> TIA
> John
>
>
>

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"John" <user@user.com> wrote in message
news:6QX%d.41160$6g7.1089@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
> over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
> to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
> because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
> TIA
> John
>

I can't say if it's the fastest under $400 but I recently got an Athlon XP
3200+ Barton and Asus A7V600-X along with 512 MB of PC3200 for $300.. but
here's the fastest I could find at $400.

http://www.partspc.com/store/product615.html

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"John" <user@user.com> writes:
>What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
>money? (like 400 bucks or so)
>I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
>over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
>to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
>because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
>slowing it down dosen't fix it)
>So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
>TIA
>John

I don't do video. I do number crunching.

When I coax someone into benchmarking plausibly priced faster board/cpu
than my old dependable 2000/ecs it seems that even the AMD 64 3200 gets
no more than perhaps 50% faster results than mine, often not that much.

So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
double or triple the current speed.

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"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <user@user.com> writes:
> >What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> >money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> >I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and
then
> >over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board
clocked
> >to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
> >because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> >slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> >So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
> >TIA
> >John
>
> I don't do video. I do number crunching.
>
> When I coax someone into benchmarking plausibly priced faster board/cpu
> than my old dependable 2000/ecs it seems that even the AMD 64 3200 gets
> no more than perhaps 50% faster results than mine, often not that much.
>
> So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
> two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
> have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
> to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
> when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
> double or triple the current speed.
What's ur point, a server? That would be way over the 400$
It took me almost a year to get this Dual Xeon together.
I'd like to see a Dual chip like AMD's Athlon FX55
with 1,000 MHz FSB @ 2,000 MHz Effective bus.
Speaking of which, I read not so long ago a page trying to put the thing
down.
Hell, they only ran like 10 or more tests that Intel has been know for being
good @ for a while.
Then some tests were very scetchy.
Sorry 4 that...
RavingRaichu.. ;-) :-)

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John wrote:
> What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and
> then over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus
> board clocked to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the
> drives and think it is because of the over clock, (it's been that way
> for over 2 years, even slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video
> work....... TIA
> John


I recently built an Athlon 64 3500+ and paired it with the MSI K8N Neo2
Platinum.

Very satisfied with it, solid, stable - overclocking to 2.553ghz. Runs
Prime95 for 10 hours no errors.






--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the
way of the man that's doing it."

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"RaichuRaichu" <ravingraichu@comcast.net> writes:
>"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
>> So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
>> two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
>> have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
>> to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
>> when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
>> double or triple the current speed.
>>
>What's ur point, a server? That would be way over the 400$

Sorry, I must not have been clear. Let me try again.

2 or 3 or 4 each
$75 or $85 motherboard and semperon from Fry's on sale
sets of 512 meg $50/stick memory on sale
dirt cheap used ATX case with no supply.
$35 ATX supply from Fry's on sale.
$20 cheap kvm switch just to keep it happy and handle jobs
boot off the net from your existing machine/drive.

I hope this description was more clear.

You should be able to get 2 of those built for your $400.
That should give you twice your current performance.
You won't get that by buying any single board and cpu I know of.

> It took me almost a year to get this Dual Xeon together.
>I'd like to see a Dual chip like AMD's Athlon FX55
> with 1,000 MHz FSB @ 2,000 MHz Effective bus.

I'd like to find a bargain priced multiprocessor 64 bit cpu board
but I'm just not finding it. Or even a single processor board
for an Opteron, just as an experiment. Board prices are several
times the prices of cheap systems.

>Speaking of which, I read not so long ago a page trying to put the thing
>down.
>Hell, they only ran like 10 or more tests that Intel has been know for being
>good @ for a while.
>Then some tests were very scetchy.
>Sorry 4 that...
>RavingRaichu.. ;-) :-)

Having fair benchmarks that really represent what you
are going to use the machine for are very important.
Way too many people make claims about speed and don't
use a stopwatch to see what they really get.

And just to be VERY clear, I'm not criticizing any brand
or model processor. I just try to get cheap crunching done.

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"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <user@user.com> writes:
> >What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> >money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> >I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and
then
> >over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board
clocked
> >to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
> >because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> >slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> >So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
> >TIA
> >John
>
> I don't do video. I do number crunching.
>
> When I coax someone into benchmarking plausibly priced faster board/cpu
> than my old dependable 2000/ecs it seems that even the AMD 64 3200 gets
> no more than perhaps 50% faster results than mine, often not that much.
>
> So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
> two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
> have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
> to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
> when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
> double or triple the current speed.
Cool.. ;-)
Where the heck is the subject starter?
This advice is very good on all sides.
Denny. (RavingRaichu)