845 chipset with Vegas Audio

frogy wrote on 10/1/2001, 11:43 AM

I am retiring my old butfaithful466 Celeron-440BX chipset combo and am building a new DAW.
My first choice is a Plll 866eb with an ASUS TUSL2-C MB. However I am tempted to go with a 478 pin 1.5 Gig P4 with an Asus P4B MB: it has the new Intel 845 chipset that accepts SDRAM.
My question: is anyone using this new 845 chipset with the 478 pin P4 and how is the performance and stability with Vegas Audio?

Comments

frogy wrote on 10/2/2001, 9:58 AM

Is no one interested in this 845 chipset and it's performance with Vegas? I can hardly believe so considering it will be ubitquitious this time next year. Just wondering if anyone is using it yet.

jboy wrote on 10/2/2001, 11:38 AM

There have been a number of reviews on early samples of these boards, (check out tomshardware.com), and they've been disappointing performers. Early next year , or sooner, boards running the P4's and DDR 266 memory will appear. I'd wait for these, they should really cook. Intel's just desperate to get rid of their P4's, ergo the sdram fix.

Bisquilis wrote on 10/3/2001, 6:08 PM

Don't let Intel trick you into buying a crappy solution that gets them out of supporting DDR. They will support DDR with MBs and new P4s in the first quarter of next year. If you can't afford a P4 with rambus consider an Athlon, just stay with a name board with at least a Via 133a, or AMD 751 chipset and keep all drivers current and you'll have all the speed you could ever use. My 2 cents, 8P