New Intel 845PE Board Picks

PSULion

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I've been reading reviews of the i845 chipset and I think I have found the board that allows for future hyperthreading support while allowing me the firewire support I currently desire. I want to go with at least a 2 GHz P4, I have a Radeon 8500LE video card, Maxtor 60 Gb ATA 133 HDD, Samsung 40-12-40 CDRW (and I also have a ATA 66 or 33 drive I plan to use for video for now). I want to build this primarily for gaming and video editing. I am considering PC2700 DDR RAM (I am open for suggestions on brands and CAS) and I am running Windows 98SE (hope to upgrade to XP pro next year).
I am looking at the Asus P4PE with the firewire (I think it's the pro board but I see several versions on pricewatch and the Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra.
I am not a big overclocker but I have read the Asus board O/C's very well with no extra cooling or settings. What's YOUR advice for my rig. Any tips on vendors appreciated as well. Thanks!
 

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Read these articles they should provide a good bit of insight on what you are looking for along with benchmarks etc...

1) (Albatron, Gigabyte, Asus board)

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1723&p=1

2) (Msi board)
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1738&p=1

3) (Epox board)
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1728&p=1

4) (Aopen board)
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1732&p=1

You will see that they all perform and overclock roughly the same but some provide more features than others. I purchased the albatron (silver edition) which isnt shown here on newegg.com two days ago...you just cant beat it for the money....now im debating what cpu I want....
If you want overclock you will see in the overclocking benchmarks that the corsair xms pc3200 is the way to go...

goodluck

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by civilized on 11/21/02 08:46 AM.</EM></FONT></P>