Revamping my serious PC . Scrapping the Asus A7V133 athlon900 based core and going for a P4 (the newer 533 FSB ones) probably around the 2.5GHz or higher. Would prefer DDR333 (or 400) need at least 1Gb capacity possibly more later on.
Will initially use an elderly Geforce 2GTS with it but with a view to upgrading to a Radeon 9700 pro. All the other bits are taken care of.
OS is W2K
Like Asus motherboards. Been looking at the P4B-533(V) with the intel845G chipset that supports DDR333 (and 400 unofficially??) but its not x8 AGP I believe. However it seems like a very stable board (main beef with the A7V).
Alternative is the P4S-8x which has x8 AGP .However I have heard stability issues with the sis645 chipset. ( I need the thing to work well reasonably quickly)
I'll be running very high end 2d and 3d packages working with Hi res images (4096x3112 max) . Bit of video editing on the side too which I figure is the least of my worries.
Whats your opinion guys? ( I 'd like the x8 agp for future proofing)
Will initially use an elderly Geforce 2GTS with it but with a view to upgrading to a Radeon 9700 pro. All the other bits are taken care of.
OS is W2K
Like Asus motherboards. Been looking at the P4B-533(V) with the intel845G chipset that supports DDR333 (and 400 unofficially??) but its not x8 AGP I believe. However it seems like a very stable board (main beef with the A7V).
Alternative is the P4S-8x which has x8 AGP .However I have heard stability issues with the sis645 chipset. ( I need the thing to work well reasonably quickly)
I'll be running very high end 2d and 3d packages working with Hi res images (4096x3112 max) . Bit of video editing on the side too which I figure is the least of my worries.
Whats your opinion guys? ( I 'd like the x8 agp for future proofing)