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[eli]

Before I order my computer, I was wanting to know what the best intel based motherboard on the market is. I've look all around, and all I come up with is many good motherboards, but no best. I was also wondering if ddr ram performs well on intel besed motherboards, or if the RDRAM performs better. I also hear that 32-bit RDRAM is slower then the 16-bit RDRAM, is that true?

Thanks!

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[jadison]

I suggest you just stick to your original plan and go for an nForce2 based mobo ...

As far as what's the "best" intel based mobo? ... there's no such thing. Being the "best" only means what's "best" for you ... the person who's using it. It all comes down to what features do you need, want, and/or will want in the future ... and how much money you have right now to spend on this mobo. There are other factors that come into effect here, but those are the 2 most important. Intel generally costs more ... AMD doesn't.

As for RDRAM ... well, from sources I have and from what I've read recently Intel based mobo's will be phasing out support for RDRAM and will be taking on DDR based memory full steam.

Just stick w/an AMD solution - nForce2 is your best bet.

[eli]

I'll do that. Do you recommend barton core, or the thoroughbred B core??

[jadison]

[eli]

Well you first of all you said that the XP 2400+ was good for overclocking. I Personally wanted the 2600+ do to the 333fsb. You never told me what your impressions were on that, so I was kind of confused. All I really wanted was to get a AMD processor with 333fsb, and the barton 2500+ looks to be good. The reason I'm asking your opinion is to signify a few of the processors that I read about, that were affordable, had 333fsb, and had good performance. The 2500+ looks to be good to me. What are your impressions??


Yes I do want to overclock my system, so im going to purchase the Thermalrigh SK-7, although the Thermalright SLK-800 had better performance. I was thinking about getting a vantec tornado 80mm fan for my case and CPU, but then I would have to get a rheobus, and it would be a big mess. So I think I'll just get a panaflo 80mm fan to go with that.



Thank you

[jadison]

BTW - The Barton core consists of the following CPUs: AthlonXP 2500+, 2800+, and 3000+ with the following prices in US Dollars: $181, $381, and $598 respectively ... so if you go with a Barton ur best bet is the 2500+ since it's the cheapest and can still OC pretty well. (personal experience isn't speaking here ... I haven't had the pleasure of OC'ing an AthlonXP cpu sry )

BTW - here's a good resource describing a bit about the Barton core and some comparisons, etc - http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030210/index.html

and a clear chart of ALL the AthlonXP CPU's - http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030210/barton-09.html ... if you notice, some AthlonXP's overlap in more than one category...personally I find this confusing to the end user and therefore confusing to the rest of us when we try to help the end user AMD's whole naming policy is turning out to be more cumbersome, esp with CPU names overlapping different core technologies!

[jadison]

Hey bud - didn't mean to sound harsh on ya ... hope that's not how you took it. I'm here to help you in the best way that I can :)

[eli]

not harsh at all, I like people to be very direct, and honest with me, and I have been reading a lot, I just like to run things past you before I purchase them.