Albatron PX845PE ProII or Gigabyte 8PE667 Ultra?

[Afro000Dude]

Should I buy the albatron for $135 or the Gigabyte for $117? There's also the silver Albatron (same board) for 2 dollars more... Decisions decisions...

 

[PClark99]

Both are great boards and I have experience with both of them.

Get the albatron if you want to push the FSB on an overclock.

Get the Gigabyte if you have a thing for alot of harddrives in your system.

Otherwise pick em.


Check pricewatch you can get the 8PE667 Ultra for $96.

And you can get the 845PEV Pro board for $85 from newegg. It just doesn't have the SATA connectors.

 

[Afro000Dude]

I want to go with the Albatron, but the PX845GE looks like it might be cheaper than the PX845PE.

Are there any benefits or downsides to having the onboard graphics?

I don't plan to use it, but I seem to recall that the older 845G boards had a little edge over the 845E boards. Is this still true?

If I turn off the onboard video, then it should be the same as the PX845PE, correct?

Thanks in advance.

 

[PClark99]

I would go with the Albatron PE chipset board over the older 845G chipset.

The PE has a 2.66 memory multiplier in bios. That means if you can get your CPU to 150FSB you can run DDR400.

Not sure if the 845g has this option, I doubt it does though.

 

[Afro000Dude]

No, the GE is the PE with onboard video.

So the PX845GE should have the same performance as the PX845PE if I just turn off the video, right?

 

[PClark99]

The GE should be the older 845g chipset.

The PE chipset is newer.

The performance will not differ by much if anything in real world use.

If you can get a new GE board for like $50 then it is worth it, but if you are only talking $10 or $20, go with the PE board.

 

[LiLxJohnny]

Correct if I'm wrong, but isn't Albatron created by the same employees from Gigabyte?

 

[PClark99]

Albatron was started by a bunch of former gigabyte employees.

 

[mschell]

I do belive the PE and the GE are the same chipsets, the GE just includes video. A few sites have tested both models from a manufacture and noted no performance differences. I belive the E sufix denotes among other things, Hyper Threading support and official DDR 333 support. The 845G (no E) won't officialy support this but is can be made to work.