Asus Mobos

[_-Gunslinger-_]

What is the Difference between the Asus P4P800 and the P4C800 also, if you have the knowlege, what is the diference between the 865 and 875 chipsets?

[Daleon]

Well that is basically the difference.

The P4C800 is the 875 chipset and the P4P800 is the 865 chipset. The difference being?

Performance. They are both 800 mhz chipsets and will perform rather well. But the 875 Canterwood is top dog currently. It has PAT, Performance Acceleration Technology. Asus a while back did something cool in their Bios though that basically enabled this feature in the 865 chipset, which totally pissed Intel off. I'm not sure where that stands at today. I don't keep up to much on Intel chipsets, as I prefer AMD these days.

Overall, you get a few nicer features, and a little more performance out of an 875. Just depends on if your willing to spend more.

[Rbstr]

The only realy difference in the 875 and the 865 is PAT and Error Coderctin Code memory takes a preformance hit when used so the realy differenc for normal peopl is the PAT witch can boost preformance by 1-5% if you use dual DDR 400 and a 800mhz FBS P4 with HT

EDIT ya asus had to get rid of PAT on the 865's, mine can't enable it, there is peobaly a bios !@$!$ out there that does it, but that is unmentionable.

[NoSurrender]

yup everythings been stated already

[Rbstr]

oh By the way i love my P4P800 Deluxe, stable as a rock. just wish i had good memory and a p4 in it

[_-Gunslinger-_]

Ok thanks for the technincals, one more for you guys though. I was looking at the ATI 9800XT Radion and saw a 9800XT/Saffire or something like that, whats the difference between the two?

[Daleon]

Sapphire is a ATI reseller. They take ATI's chip and their reference board and sell it under their name brand. Sometimes they redesign the board some, sometimes they don't. Same with memory, it may have a different brand than ATI boards. Sometimes this is better memory, sometimes worse. But its always rated atleast as good as the spec requirements to meet 9800XT.

Now as far as the Sapphire 9800XT goes, I hear this is an excellent board. They actually cooked it up nicely and used some damn good memory. Previously Sapphire's like the 9700 Pro weren't all that great.

You also deal with them on anything like warranty and not directly with ATI.

[Ait'al]

Der, Comment moved to right thread.

[NoSurrender]

WTF IS UP WITH AITIAL. CAN WE ALL PITCH IN AND GET THIS GUY A FRIGGIN PSCYHE

[Ait'al]

I was reading threads and didnt realize i had wnet to this one while posting a response to another thread.