Asus P4P800 question about price and quality

Also, here's another question. WHY is the Asus more expensive that the MSI
Neo-2? They are both 865 boards, the MSI has more stuff, but the asus is a
bit more expensive. I assume that Asus uses better quality components...

I found out about the Neo2 from Tom's Hardware Guide.
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The Asus P4P800 blows the Neo2 out of the water. The P4P800 has PAT,
something that is supposed to be found only on the 875 boards. Unfortunetly
for legal reasons Intel will not let Asus call it PAT, so it's called
"memory acceleration mode" in the BIOS. Make no mistake it's still PAT.
You're bascially buying an 875 board without ECC.

I know that with the Neo2, MSI put on a little cheat so that it would
perform slightly better than 865PE boards in benchmarks. At 100% CPU the
Neo2 will automatically overclock the FSB by about 5%. Tom's hardware makes
it out to be "ingenious" but beware Tom's hardware is dead wrong and its
sole purpose is to make the Neo2 perform better in benchmarks, giving it the
illusion of being a better board. If you want to overclock by 5% you can do
it by telling the Asus bios to "Overclock 5%" in the jumperfree config.

Even with the Neo2's cheat the P4P800 blows it out of the water in
benchmarks when you enable PAT.

Hope this helps...

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Also, here's another question. WHY is the Asus more expensive that the
MSI
Neo-2? They are both 865 boards, the MSI has more stuff, but the asus is
a
bit more expensive. I assume that Asus uses better quality components...

I found out about the Neo2 from Tom's Hardware Guide.
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:06:58 -0700, jaeger wrote:

In article ,
says...

Tom's is OK for comparisons of benchmarks and features

I wouldn't even go that far. It wasn't too long ago where they
published a review in which the graphs were mislabeled and upside-down.

Maybe they should go to work for the Iraqi intelligence group at the
CIA . . .

Josh