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Geek Culture / follow up of building a custom computer, need advice for a mobo

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well, I'm going to build my computer (hyrichter and Sephnroth convinced me ) and I need advice for the motherB. and the hd's. I'm thinking of getting a asus p5gd2 premium, asus p5gd2 deluxe, asus P4C800-E Deluxe, asus P5AD2-E Premium, or a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. (cpu, will be what the mother board I want can support.) And I am trying to figure out if a sata or a ata-133 is better, which one is compatible as the main hd. advice, recomendations, and answers are welcome!
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The folks at the store told me Asus was the best brand of motherboard. Bought it and the AGP slot went defective a year later.

I now rely on a hamster in a tread-wheel.

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which one/type of asus

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Eric T
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I prefer gigabyte mobos personally. You should choose a CPU before you choose a MOBO, as the MOBO needs to be "fitted" around the CPU.

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I have an Abit AS8 in mine, and it works ok.

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well, I don't really care between amd or p4, amd64bit is cool, but that isn't much faster than a p4 3.6gh because the 64bit is about 2gh, and the mother boards aren't much different. amd and p4 have pros and cons, I'm not much of a gamer (building a gameing pc because they have high proformance), but I love having a fast cpu, the only m-rated game I have is splinter cell caos theory and allmost all the good games are m (halo). having 64bit dosn't matter because the amd 64bit is 32bit compatible and I have a installation for the 64bit suse 9.2 pro. and the buget is at <$2500 so price isn't much of a issue

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side note: Eric T "Don't Panic" (I love Hitch Hickers Guide)
side note: Megaton Cat, I went to Banff, it was excellent!

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I got an AN7 Abit motherboard its fairly good got a nividia chip set i bought a geforce 4 fx 5500 128mb for the agp slot and it runs fine the onboard sound is awsome no need to go buy a sound card at all.

Asus is the best though get matrox 10000rpm hard drives

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JoelJ
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Quote: " but that isn't much faster than a p4 3.6gh because the 64bit is about 2gh"


you really cant compare AMD processors with Intel's just by the clock speed, they perform a bit differntly

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Quote: "you really cant compare AMD processors with Intel's just by the clock speed, they perform a bit differntly"

Precisely. I like to think of Pentium as a bicycle with really small wheels spinning super fast, and the AMD with larger wheels spinning at a lower RPM. The AMD is definitely going to move faster even though its RPMs are lower.

If possible, get a MB which supports SATA and a SATA hard-drive (10,000 RPM if you can afford it. You'll be amazed how fast applications load.) I have an Asus A7V600-X mobo and I've been very happy with it.


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under lord, yah I was thinking of getting a WD Raptor 72gig (10,00rpm) but am probably going to get a larger hd, how big is the matrox?
amd 64bit is better than p4, but I don't really see me needing one. just to check 32bit works on 64bit right? the reason why i'm sticking with asus because it has a 8channel sound card built into it (go to asus.com and look at the p5gd2 and p5ad2 modles pre and delu

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hello hyrichter the p5gd2 premium and p4c800-e deluxe have sata,sata-150, ata(133) controllers I think in the south brige,

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>well, I'm going to build my computer

Let the store build it.

>and I need advice for the motherB. and the hd's. I'm thinking of
>getting a asus p5gd2 premium, asus p5gd2 deluxe, asus P4C800-E
>Deluxe, asus P5AD2-E Premium, or a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. (cpu, will
>be what the mother board I want can support.)

Choose the processor architecture first, then choose the mainboard.

>And I am trying to figure out if a sata or a ata-133 is better,
>which one is compatible as the main hd. advice, recomendations, and
>answers are welcome!

Choose SATA over ATA.

Andy
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