Looking to get Asus P4C800 - But....

the ic7-g doesnt have any of the flaws that the p4c800 has, from all the info i have seen on it, it is the best canterwood board out right now, it has the serial ata raid incorporated into the southbridge, it has core voltage adjustments up to 1.9v and it has the intel gigabit ethernet incorporated into the northbridge. it has every feature that i want. if i had to buy a canterwood motherboard right now, i would get the abit ic7-g, it looks great on paper, and from what ive been seeing from owners, it performs great too.

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Originally posted by natgun
the ic7-g doesnt have any of the flaws that the p4c800 has, from all the info i have seen on it, it is the best canterwood board out right now, it has the serial ata raid incorporated into the southbridge, it has core voltage adjustments up to 1.9v and it has the intel gigabit ethernet incorporated into the northbridge. it has every feature that i want. if i had to buy a canterwood motherboard right now, i would get the abit ic7-g, it looks great on paper, and from what ive been seeing from owners, it performs great too.

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IMO, the only reason why the ABIT IC7 is better then my Gigabyte board is the extra vcpu :) Other then that I would choose Gigabyte over ABIT... I just had a string of good mobo's from Gigabyte recently.. its hard to switch when such a good thing is going on :)

no experience with gigabyte, not sure if i trust em.

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Originally posted by natgun
the ic7-g doesnt have any of the flaws that the p4c800 has, from all the info i have seen on it, it is the best canterwood board out right now, it has the serial ata raid incorporated into the southbridge, it has core voltage adjustments up to 1.9v and it has the intel gigabit ethernet incorporated into the northbridge. it has every feature that i want. if i had to buy a canterwood motherboard right now, i would get the abit ic7-g, it looks great on paper, and from what ive been seeing from owners, it performs great too.

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with that serial raid do i have to set it up?...or would the only way to set up mah hard drives is with serial raid way?...im asking becuase i have only seen and done hard drives set ups the onlder way with no raid

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Originally posted by Colossus


IMO, the only reason why the ABIT IC7 is better then my Gigabyte board is the extra vcpu :) Other then that I would choose Gigabyte over ABIT... I just had a string of good mobo's from Gigabyte recently.. its hard to switch when such a good thing is going on :)

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I take it that you have worked out the problems you was having with that board when you first set it up? I think I read something in your thread that you didn't know if you would send the Gigabyte back or not is why I ask. It was like 4 or 5 page thread I think......

Paul

Yes I did... :)

Well part of the problem was the limited voltage.. So I wasnt able to overclock like I did before... The other problem was the divider... The motherboard or it could be the DCDDR didnt like the 4:5 timing above DCDDR420 which is only like 168FSB...

So as soon as I dropped to 1:1 it ran great...

The main problem was that the board didnt like my 9700Pro, as soon as I got my 9800Pro it ran every benchmark I threw at it :)

That was my main beef with the setup... I guess this board or Canterwood's are very picky with the revision of 8x video cards out there.

Thanks Colossus.....

Also in all the posts in this thread there are other boards that are talked about getting over the P4C800. The Abit is talked about the most, but why has no one talked about the Aopen AX4C Max board? Has anyone tried the Aopen board yet?

Paul

I have seen some sigs with that board... But I dont like AOpen boards.. So I wouldnt even touch it :) Nor would I touch BIOSTAR.

jameezzzz, if you want to use the serial ata raid, you can do it all from the system bios, it will allow you to either use the two drives in raid or you can use the drives independantly.

so i should just set up the twp hard drives as i normally would and then do the setings in bios?...the instructions would come with the ic7-g right?

also do all HD work with raid?...or is there a special feature they need?

Yes all HD's work with RAID...

But for optimial performance you want to identical drives... I wouldnt mix 2 80GB drives, one from Seagate the other from Maxtor.

Remember your RAID array will be as fast as the slowest drive in the array..

Also if you mix drive sizes, 80GB and 60GB; the RAID 0 array will only be 120GB large... The extra 20GB will be lost.