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Postby Blade Runner on Fri May 21, 2004 5:28 pm

I have an ASROCK P4VX4 at the moment and want to upgrade it. The one I'm drooling over is the ASUS P4C800-E-Deluxe which will cost me around £150 and can afford to buy in a couple of weeks.

I'm wondering if there are any other suggestions I should consider before my sheer bloodymindedness takes over and i just go for the ASUS.

system
CPU: P4 2.8ghz
RAM: 1024mb (for now)
Vid: Nvidia 5600
Sound: Audigy 2
4x WD Hardrives
Case: Cheiftech Dragon
PSU: 550w
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Sat May 22, 2004 5:59 pm

I'm obssessed by Epox at the moment. Excellent overclocking abilities and just great design.
http://www.epox.nl/english/products/mot ... /4pca3.htm
Problem is they lack of a really killer board in your range. I take it your just changing your mainboard? Otherwise I'd recommend holding out a couple of months, and then investing in a AMD64. What with windows XP64, and PCIexpress on the horizon...
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Postby Blade Runner on Sun May 23, 2004 12:19 pm

I have been asking around and the other suggestions are ABit IC7-Max 3 and a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP got any thoughts on these spud?
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Postby Blade Runner on Thu May 27, 2004 12:45 pm

Ive done loads of research on this now and appreciate your input spud on this topic and what has come out best is the ASUS P4C800-E-Deluxe so Saturday approaches and so does the new mobo :lol:
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Postby Blade Runner on Thu May 27, 2004 11:40 pm

I went in today to order it for Saturday and it wont be in till next Wednesday.....

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I am so impatient when I want something like this :matrix:
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Postby Blade Runner on Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:17 pm

The new board is in now and my vid card has doubled its speed :mrgreen:
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:34 pm

I'm holding out for PCIexpress before buying a new motherboard myself. Should be upgrading around xmas this year :)
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