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Original Message 1/7 16-Jul-02 @ 05:44 PM - Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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Decided to stay with Logic for Windows for the time being, and having just sold a bit of gear I have enough cash to upgrade my machine. I'm thinking of going to a P4 2.0 GHz with 512 MB DDR RAM. But I'm a bit confused about all the different memory and motherboard options to be honest. RAMBUS memory - what's that all about? It's about twice the price of DDR RAM, so is it twice as fast or something? :-)

General recommendations on mobos and memory would be welcome - I'm looking at Asus and Gigabyte boards at the moment. The Gigabyte board is about the same spec as far as I can tell, but is cheaper. What's their rep like?

I'd ask the guys at the computer store, but they don't know anything about setting up a DAW. (Sort of how I feel right now...)

Thanks.

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Message 2/7 16-Jul-02 @ 05:47 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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BTW - it seems a lot of mobos claim to have "Integrated Audio" which I wouldn't want to touch with a barge-pole. Do manufacturers usually make a version *without* the integrated audio aspect?

Man... I was just getting to grips with the P3 specs. *sigh*

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Message 3/7 16-Jul-02 @ 06:43 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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No but you can turn off onboard audio no probs so ignore that.

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Message 4/7 16-Jul-02 @ 07:02 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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RAMBUS is much faster than standard RAM, but harder to find and much more expensive. It'll make a big difference, but the jury is still out on it. It may be possible that RAMBUS memory disappears at some point.

-Craig

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Message 5/7 16-Jul-02 @ 09:50 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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OK - ta very much.

Is RAMBUS something that might not catch on you mean?

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Message 6/7 17-Jul-02 @ 02:18 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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It's already not caught on because of price. It's been out since just before the Pentium 4. There is a lot of advantage to it - memory access speed and data transfer speed is certainly becoming a bottleneck. If you check the "Athlon is still fastest" thread, there's a ling to some comparisons. Compare the benchmarks for P4s with RAMBUS vs. P4s with DDR memory - RAMBUS is much faster. But it still remains to be seen what kind of technology is going to become popular to work around this situation. The new nVidia chipset uses two memory busses instead of one, and DDR memory. It isn't as quick as RAMBUS but it's cheaper.

There's a lot of potential solutions. I'd certainly wait a bit before committing to it myself.

-Craig

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Message 7/7 17-Jul-02 @ 02:42 PM - RE: Upgrading to P4 - proven chipsets?

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OK - thanks a lot. I think I'll stick with DDR RAM for now. Rambus is too expensive anyway, particularly if it's not going to be supported for sure.

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