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From: Dion L Heap on 19 Nov 2007 08:22
Well it's been a long time since I was last here, overall it looks to have
declined a lot. WAYYY too much spam on this group nowadays. Are the old
faces still here? Tom, John, Jerry etc?

Anyway, down to my question, I'm having a dilemma. Thinking of retiring my
trustee 3.2 gig P4 IC7G rig and going the core duo route. The thing is, I've
been spoilt by the IC7G and am looking for a new equivalent of this modern
classic.

Looking at a CPU like the Core 2 DUO E6850 3.00GHz 'Conroe' 4Mb Cache LGA775
(1333 Mhz).

Have always preferred the Intel chipset on my boards but it's been that long
(the IC7G was a brand new model when I built this) so, can those in the
know enlighten me a little. Here are some of my needs:-

Memory, need at least 2 gig, doing quite a bit of video work and rendering
at the moment.
Storage, looking at SATA II obviously, but need plenty of space. Looking at
something like 2 x 250 gig raid0 for OS and progs, then as many 500 gig
storage drives as I can get in.

So, what's hot and what's not in my range of choices?


Many thanks in advance.

Dion L Heap





From: nospam on 19 Nov 2007 14:00
If you're running a P4 above 3GHz you'll likely be disappointed in
the speed increase with a Core Duo chip, especially if you don't
heavily multitask, and especially if you aren't running the highest-end
3D games (which use enough of PCI-E's bandwidth to justify the
upgrade from AGP8X).

Personally I'm waiting for the new 45nm Wolfdale Core Duo chips
from Intel (due in January) before upgrading my IC7G w/ 3GHz
Northwood @ 3.6GHz. Even Wolfdale will be little more than an
incremental upgrade from this current system, aside from the video.

"Dion L Heap" <NoSpam(a)thanks.com> wrote in message news:47418e1c$0$13941$fa0fcedb(a)news.zen.co.uk...
> Well it's been a long time since I was last here, overall it looks to have
> declined a lot. WAYYY too much spam on this group nowadays. Are the old
> faces still here? Tom, John, Jerry etc?
>
> Anyway, down to my question, I'm having a dilemma. Thinking of retiring my
> trustee 3.2 gig P4 IC7G rig and going the core duo route. The thing is, I've
> been spoilt by the IC7G and am looking for a new equivalent of this modern
> classic.
>
> Looking at a CPU like the Core 2 DUO E6850 3.00GHz 'Conroe' 4Mb Cache LGA775
> (1333 Mhz).
>
> Have always preferred the Intel chipset on my boards but it's been that long
> (the IC7G was a brand new model when I built this) so, can those in the
> know enlighten me a little. Here are some of my needs:-
>
> Memory, need at least 2 gig, doing quite a bit of video work and rendering
> at the moment.
> Storage, looking at SATA II obviously, but need plenty of space. Looking at
> something like 2 x 250 gig raid0 for OS and progs, then as many 500 gig
> storage drives as I can get in.
>
> So, what's hot and what's not in my range of choices?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Dion L Heap
>
>
>
>
>


From: Folk on 19 Nov 2007 14:31
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:00:47 GMT, <nospam(a)sbcglobal.invalid.net>
wrote:

>If you're running a P4 above 3GHz you'll likely be disappointed in
>the speed increase with a Core Duo chip, especially if you don't
>heavily multitask, and especially if you aren't running the highest-end
>3D games (which use enough of PCI-E's bandwidth to justify the
>upgrade from AGP8X).
>
>Personally I'm waiting for the new 45nm Wolfdale Core Duo chips
>from Intel (due in January) before upgrading my IC7G w/ 3GHz
>Northwood @ 3.6GHz. Even Wolfdale will be little more than an
>incremental upgrade from this current system, aside from the video.

I disagree. When the P4 Northwoods were all Intel had to offer, the
corresponding AMD processors trounced them soundly. Now the Core 2
chips are doing the same to AMD, so elementary logic will tell you
that the Core 2 processors are head and shoulders above the P4's,
multitasking notwithstanding.

And the Wolfdale chips only bring a paltry 5% performance increase
over the current Intel parts, so unless you're looking forward to the
decreased power usage then you're waiting in vain.

To the OP: The best bang for the buck is the Abit IP35. Uses DDR2
(DDR3 is still too expensive and brings nothing to the table
performance-wise) and will take any current Intel Core processor. If
you need complete control over your fans (nice for a quiet machine)
then you'll want the IP35 Pro which has the uGuru monitor chip.
From: Dion L Heap on 19 Nov 2007 14:35
I was looking at the IN9, is it not a great choice?

thanks


From: Dion L Heap on 19 Nov 2007 14:43

"Dion L Heap" <NoSpam(a)thanks.com> wrote in message
news:4741e55f$0$13941$fa0fcedb(a)news.zen.co.uk...
>I was looking at the IN9, is it not a great choice?
>
> thanks
>

Thing is it's an nvidea chipset, never been a lover of nvidea, having said
that I was never a lover of AMD and now they have my beloved ATI :o(


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