Setting up a new PC, can anybody help?

Gockel · Post by **Gockel** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:19 pm

Hi everyone. I have Pulsar II and I'm going to buy a new PC. I read the comments some of you wrote about the hardware and informed myself otherwise and now I'm considering the following setup:

MOBO: P4C800-E Deluxe (Intel i875P), 400-800fsb (quadpumped)

CPU: P4 2.6GHz 800fsb (quadpumped) Northwood 512k L2 Cache

HD: Seagate ST380013AS 80GB SATA/150

RAM: Corsair DIMM 512 MB (DDR 400, CMX-512-3200LL, Low Latency)

Video Card: Matrox G550

and a 400W power pack...

but I'm not too familiar with this, so I'd be thankful for any advice you can give...
bye Gockel

arela · Post by **arela** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 2:41 pm

hi, some discussions going on here, saying that the 850 to 865 chip is better suited than Intel i875P for our purpose.
...and maybe Matrox p650 (that is what I gonna buy soon to replace my 450)
My Matrox 450 was great, but it is slow on my 18,1 display. And, as i can recall it is AGP 4x while P650 is AGP 8x.
(The 550 is ?)......anyway...good luck

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bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:36 pm

Looks like a good setup to me.

Running a 16MB G450 on dual 21" screens here and it's not slow at all. Don't see a need to upgrade the vga card yet! So the G550 should be fine.

Gockel · Post by **Gockel** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:55 am

Yes I read the comments about the performance problems, but I guess he did his tests with HT and I heard it's better to turn HT off (and I guess I will do so, at least in the beginning). And many other people said that the P4C800-E Dlx is fine... but I'm not really sure yet... well, I'll buy in a week or so, so there's some time left to decide... (also about G550/G650)
thanks for your advices...
bye

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 11:53 pm

is there a big difference between a g400 and a 550 for 2d video screen writes? my 400 seems kind of slow to me.

i am KVM switching between another system with dual output Ti4200 and the g400, and even in non creamware windows it seems rather sluggish.