Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe

[jonmcc33]

I recently wanted to upgrade from an AMD system to an Intel system. I grew sick of AMD's rating number for the CPU and the fact that they seem stuck at 2GHz and get smoked by Intel in digital media encoding. I do a lot of digital audio and video editing so that's the area I needed a boost at.

The review that AnandTech did on the Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe (here) really impressed me. I had bad experiences with SiS' AMD chipsets but I heard good things about them now. The performance over an 875P motherboard, cost, and all of the features pushed me to get it.

I've had it and a P4 2.8C for over a week and I am VERY impressed. It does indeed overclock quite a bit and it's overclocking options helped me deal with only having DDR333 (some OCZ DDR400 EL is on it's way). The board is stable as a rock as well.

I just wanted to thank the peeps at AnandTech, specifically Wes, for recommending such an excellent board.

 

[Pharmdeity]

Glad to hear you like the board. I've had the same board for a couple of weeks now running my old northwood 1.6a at 155mhz.

I've got a 2.8c arriving tomorrow afternoon. I'm wondering how far you've been able to push your 2.8c, what voltage, and what temps you've been running?

Thanks

 

[Kiwiclocker]

Got my P4S800D-E with a 2.8C early last week, I've been very impressed with the initial overclocking, much better than my old 2.4b & Abit BE7.

Setup:

P4S800D-E Deluxe
Intel 2.8C
512mb (2x256) Kingmax DDR433 running at 200mhz - will need to play with that some more
2 x IBM 40Gb 60GXP
(Got 1 x 160Gb IBM/HGST SATA 8M Cache 7200rp delivered today - if its good, will get another & go raid 0)
PNY 4600Ti Graphics
ASUS 52x CDRW
Pioneer DVD-Rom
Watercooled with Swiftech P4 cooler & Black Ice pro rad, Eheim pump, closed loop system.

All voltages etc at default.

CPU temps always around 28-30 deg, m/board temp around 23-25 deg.

Max stable overclock 3.77 so far, early days yet though.

Cheers
Col

 

[hytek369]

nice overclock

 

[LouPoir]

Same board - very pleased. As good as any I875 m/B

Lou

 

[Barak]

very happy with my MOB,got it 8 month ago and it works Very Good

 

[pdqcarrera]

OK -- I'm sold and going for a P4S800D-E with P4 2.8C from newegg, but have a couple of dumb-rookie concerns (not so dumb though to know I should be concerned eh?) ...

I'd like to run my 2.8C O/C'd to 3.2 or 3.4 MHz, which seems quite doable without any drama according to:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1930&p=5

however, should I be concerned whether my video card is up to the task considering the "PCI/AGP is locked" ? Or is this a good thing? FWIW. I plan to use a MSI FX5900XT video card.

Also, what would be the best memory to purchase? The above mobo article they used 2 x 512MB Mushkin PC3500 Level II memory and this one here:
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1972&p=5

they rated that particular memory on the low end of the results. When it comes to all the types and combinations available, wellllll frankly my brain has swelled to a migraine proportion trying to come up with the best solution to plunk down my hardearned dollars on.

As always, any and all offered wisdom will be appreciated!
Cheers,
BossCo

Finally retiring my trusty old Abit BH6 rig once and for all...