UPDATING MY PC (mother board and processor)

DigiMortal wrote on 6/3/2003, 2:41 PM
I want to update my PC and for that I have been thinking about changing the motherboard and processor.
For that reason my consultation is on which motherboard has a good performance to work with video and audio?.
I hear for this type of work is necessary a great bandwidth to obtain good results, rapidity and performance.
I live in Chile, and is common to find marks like ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, INTEL, SOYO. On the basis of these marks, ¿what model of they recommend me?.
At the moment I have a Asus cuv-4xc which has had a good performance, but it does not allow me to update to Pentium 4 since it only accepts Pentium 3 and as my idea is to obtain a fast system, I request that they advise a model that is reliable and that has demonstrated a good performance.
I have understood that Asus has good models, ¿what recommend me?.

Thanks to which helps me in something...

DigiMortal.

Comments

Arks wrote on 6/3/2003, 3:02 PM
I can help you a little bit, but first what is your budget?
DigiMortal wrote on 6/3/2003, 3:36 PM
Good question...
But I like to know what is more suitable motherboard, on the basis of this I think to sell some things to finance the purchase.
I imagine between 200 or 300 dollars is good for something interesting.
Now, if it is less, is very very better.

Aaahhhh... this budget is only for motherboard, the processor is more easy to find.



Many thanx...

DigiMortal.
Nat wrote on 6/3/2003, 4:58 PM
I build a lot of computers with Gigabyte motherboards, with the 875P or 865 chipset, really good performance, it supports the 800mhz bus, Hyperthreading and they all come with Firewire builtin, usualy TI chips...
BillyBoy wrote on 6/3/2003, 5:08 PM
Spend some time at web sites. Many, many web sites devoted to the overclocker crowd that pick apart every motherboard as soon as they come out, (many of the better ones even get a pre release engineering version to play with. They will pick it apart and usually put up a 20 page review. Gigabyte, ASUS, IWill, many to pick from.

As far as brand of the CPU, it really doesn't matter anymore. Both Intel and AMD produce quality chips. Right now Intel has the fastest. Six months from now, AMD probalby will again. Dual processors, RAID, in my opinion a waste of money. So is getting the latest version of CPU just to get another .200 speed out of it and cough of another $200-300 for bragging rights. That money would pay for the motherboard.
david-ruby wrote on 6/3/2003, 6:32 PM
I have the same asus dual mobo and find it to be better than a pent 4 as far as being able to do more work with vegas. I tried the same session which had 25 tracks of audio and video and the pent 4 maxed out at 100% and got flaky on me. The dual kept chuggin at 52% showing both cpus being used.
Oddity? I get this same test even on the gigabyte mobo.
DR
razorcut wrote on 6/3/2003, 7:00 PM
Check out the Gigabyte SINXP1394, with the SIS dual-channel DDR RAM controller and the RAID HD controller(s)... run RAID0 on 2 video drives, and if you're really a purist a separate drive for the OS and software{which you could run RAID0 on a separate controller, already onboard, even as well} (though with RAID 0 100/133 drives you've got BW to spare)... and run dual RAM DIMMs so you can utilize the parallel RAM architecture (makes 2 64b RAMs look like 128b wide w/interleaved (effectively simultaneous) access)...

this board should be able to do anything you need including 800MHz bus (though early revs were unspecified for this they clock to those rates) and hyperthreading, firewire, 5.1 sound, dual RAID, software overclocking utility, up to 4GB RAM, 1Gb EtherNET integrated, lots of USB2.0 ports, dual power bussing on the motherboard (useful? who knows), 8X AGP port, 400MHz RAM support (for that 800MHz FSB P4 ... 400MHz dual channel = 800MHz equiv!)

Works GREAT for me -- and NO problems with the board or BIOS at ALL...