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Check the forums at www.asusboards.com, they are great when it comes to P4 stuff. Be careful that there is a bug in some default ASUS BIOSes, that *always* show the same temp readings...

Make sure you install the NTFS patch that will be part of SP1, or you will be prompted with a "boot device not present" on boot All IDE drives formatted with NTFS are prone to this, if you have "write caching" enabled (duhh, why should I have it disabled, as the M$'s workaround suggests!!!)

What bus are you talking about in the first place? The FSB? Memory? You can certainly drop a Northwood "A" in a i845E board and "overclock" it by running at 133FSB (quadpumped 533). You could also run the memory in sync with the FSB (1:1 ratio) for DDR266 (PC2100) speeds, OR, you can run it async (133:166) for DDR333 (PC2700) speeds. Although the i845E does not officially support DDR333, it can run it for sure As far as the overclocking goes, the new i845E, in the shape of the ASUS P4B533, CAN adjust the PCI/AGP/MEM ratios manually or LOCK them to 33/66/133 or 33/66/166 ! This is the best part of the deal, if you ask me The question now is if your 1.8 is a Northwood or a Willamette. You can in 99.9% of the cases run the NWood at 133 FSB, giving you a 2.4GHz speed, but remember that in the case of P4 overclocking, the MEMORY bandwith is more important than the FSB increase. You will see huge differences between a P4 with DDR266 and one with DDR333, even beating the RambusPC800 in the case of DDR400 Here is a very good link to a board where you can find out (almost) anything on P4 overclocking and such: www.asusboards.com Visit the forums, you'll be surprised what u'll find...

The one I am looking at is the Gigabyte 8SRX. It has support for DDR333 RAM and it has very good stability, speed and overclocking features. It is one of the few P4 boards that allows you to control the AGP/PCI clock, which is very important in overall stability when pushing the FSB or memory higher.

How much virtual memory you have? Nero seems to hog a lot of RAM while burning, even with Burnproof enabled drives.

Just say that you want all the bandwith for yourself, then we'll see what we can do about it

Hi ladies, I just read something on Toms Hardware that the Nvidia DVI implementation is a bit non standard, it has something to so with bandwidth. That's why they use a second DVI chip or something...if I find the link again, I'll post it. ATI has however the better DVI implementation, according to the article. Im interested in all this because I will need to buy a DVI capable card, and Im in between an ATI Radeon 8500LE and a Geforce 4Ti 4200. And YES, I checked..only the 128MB model has DVI out Ok I found the review, it was Anandtech, not Tom's HArdware: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1577

The improvements of 2D quality with the GF4 are to be noticed at resolutions of 1280x1024 and above...that's when things start getting blurry. How fast is the GF4 RAMDAC? 350MHz? And Im talking about the DVI implementation on NVIDIA, not the 2D quality of the desktop at high resolutions, or TV out quality.

ATA66 Speeds are not even now fully reached (and Im not talking about burst mode transfers), let alone ATA100. ATA133 is pure marketing flaming.

"With the release of the GeForce2 GTS, NVIDIA had integrated a TMDS transmitter into their GPU that would remain there even to this day in the current Titanium line of cards" Read the whole article, not just the title....

I am just about to buy a 15" TFT, and I want to know if it's good enough for FPS gaming. For the same price I can get me a decent 19" CRT monitor, but Im really confused....help me QUICK!!!!

Well I said I will post the practical experiences: IT KICKS ***! It runs at 1024x768x32 at 60-75Hz, optimal refresh is at 60Hz though, it cannot be compared to 60Hz on CRTs. Gaming is excellent, I cannot notice ANY tearing,delay or slow refresh of the screen. I am playing CS without any major impediments, alas it took me 3 days to get used to it for some reason I installed XP, and I have to add that Cleartype looks GOOOOOD on TFT screens, better than KDE 3.0 with antialiased fonts As a pleasant surprise I noticed that the new Detonators, 28.32 are extremly stable, I am having NO lockups or infinite loops. I did not install any VIA drivers, I only have the XP critical updates from Windows Update. There u go...

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Damn...tell me more about the Radeon 8500, I was going to buy one in the next week or so. How does it scale up to the task? Driver problems? Compatibility?

Yea ok, I did more research...the GF3 range with 64MB do not have DVI, nor the GF4 TIs with 64MB. The 128MB models do have DVI (both GF3,4), probably the GF2 Ultras as well.

Sapiens, how is the overclocking on that rig of yours?

Supposedly ATI released new XP drivers yesterday: http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/r...&cmdNext=GO! I guess those ARE the 6071s?

WOW...now this is what I call a ****up. Im speechless....

I have bought an HP 15" TFT as well, and Im using the analog VGA connector on my GF2MX. I would like to upgrade, though, and I was looking at the ATI Radeon 8500 (LE). The problem with Nvidia cards is that they support DVI only on their 128MB models (GF3&4), which pushes them out of my price range. The Radeon has one of the best, if not the best, display qualities in both 2D and 3D. I am seriously thinking of ditching the Nvidia train and catch the ATI bandwagon On the other hand I will ditch the AMD wagon, and jump the Intel train

I made up my mind fellas!!! Im gonna buy an HP L1520!!! It supposedly kicks *** (according to Tomshardware!). U can see it here: http://www4.tomshardware.com/display/02q1/020322/lcd-06.html And the conclusions here: http://www4.tomshardware.com/display/02q1/020322/lcd-09.html It has a 35ms reaction time, 350:1 contrast, 250cd/m2 brightness, image autoresizing, anti-glare coating, DVI and Analog inputs,etc... Im dying to ditch my 17" monster, and run this puppy. Tom tested it with Quake3 and it is one of the best TFTs in the market that run FPS games and such with no afterglow or tearing!!! Pray for me, and Ill post later on today the first practical experiences. Oh, forgot the price: €450

Well, one of them is a Belinea 101545, supposedly very good image quality and decent for gaming too. The other is a Liteon 150F, not bad as well, it has speakers too. Both are analog, but there is no difference nowadays between DVI and analog inputs. Contrast for both is 350:1, and response time around 40ms. Is it true that a 15" TFT has the same viewable area as a 17" CRT? That is around 38cm, I think...

Hmm, man in your place I would wait a couple of months. Then u can couple the new Northwoods B (133FSB) with the i850G (i think). It offers 1066MHz Dualchannel Rambus support That is more than 4 GB/sec memory bandwidth...

http://www.ver-computer.de/shop/index.html?target=dept_49.html One of the first shops in Germany to list it online...prices for the 64MB version seem to be between €220-250 (on Ebay) and €250-290 for the 128MB. €220 ~ US$194 €290 ~ US$256 As u can see quite expensive....however in Germany u still find Geforce3 Ti200 for around €200, so the obvious choice would be to pay €20 more and get the GF4Ti... Please post prices from the UK as well (or links)...

The GUI might be ok, but when I have my C: partition as NTFS and I get device boot errors due to a ****ING BUG, well THAT IS PISSING ME OFF!!! That's what I call pathetic...

Carbine, that is a feature of the BIOS, not of the Intel chipset. Look at the Epox 4BDA (i845D) and the Gigabyte 8SRX (SIS645)...both have it, but different chipsets. C$ rulz