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Old December 21st 03, 12:05 AM
k_yhz
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I read a review from MaximumPC mag (August issue) and they said that
board had the highest benchark score but there were a couple of
issues.
- 3com NIC uses slower PCI bus
- USB 2.0 performance poor
- CPU useage as hi as 50% using on board RAID (compared to 10% on
other boards); odd RAID set up
- might need extra fan for Northbridge over clocking as cooling seemed
inadequate
- seemed to run stabe at 1200Mhz FSB with a "C" processor
- onboard audio weak; some jacks are unuseable with 5.1 speakers

Now the board that interests me is the Asus P4S800D-E
- good overclocking all around (FSB and Proc. using air cooling)
- apparently Prescott compatible as well. I haven't done enough
research on it yet to know if they overcame the RAID problems.
Anyone have any exprience with this board?