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  • jsapyta - Sunday, October 17, 2004 - link

    Is this board good for gaming or should I switch to a AMD board?
  • aditm - Thursday, December 18, 2003 - link

    Can I have this Board please? Can I, Can I ?
    If so ... what am I sopose to do with it?
    :(
    Aniway Thanks !
    :)
  • Anonymous User - Thursday, October 23, 2003 - link

    Thank you for your excellent review. To have the
    P4C800-E support both RAID 0 and RAID 1, would two
    disks in RAID 0 configuration be connected to the two ICH5R SATA ports and another two disks in RAID
    0 configuration be connected to the two Promise
    PDC20378 SATA ports and then these two 2 disk RAID 0 arrays be configured to RAID 1 (mirroring)?
  • Anonymous User - Friday, October 10, 2003 - link

    I too am having trouble loading a clean install onto a Raid Array, any insight would be appreciated
  • Anonymous User - Friday, September 12, 2003 - link

    Using two WD raptors with the Asus P4c800-E want to run in Raid 0. I get in the raid set up but when I try to install windows [XP pro] I load the raid drivers {F6] window loads drivers.When it says loading windows for about two mins I get blue screen error something about drives or controllers not con figured. Could you shed some light on this problem. Works fine when using sata [non raid] Thanks NW
  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - link

    OK, I vaguely remember the 1.5 vs 2.0 issue for Prescott. However, what about the 100+ watts that made a problem with motherboard power supplies? Has this issue been resolved? The Asus web site and the manual state, "New power design supports next generation Intel PrescottCPU. Does this mean this motherboard has fixed the power issue. Also, what CPU heat sink/fan combination was used for the testing with 250+MHz FSB?
  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link

  • 0sparkie - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link

    Thanks,
    If I have any stability problems I ' ll inform U.
  • Icewind - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link

    Its a 9800 which conforms to all the standards on mobos, so your fine.
  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link

    I believe the manual's reference to the ATI card versions is concerning the old problems with stability and enabling AGP 8x on early versions of these video cards on AGP 8x motherboards. I have a 1 year old 9700 Pro running perfectly on this motherboard at 8x with fast writes enabled, but I am not overclocking.
  • 0sparkie - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link

    I have just download the .pdf manual of the P4C800-E. The manual says that "If installing the ATi 9500 or 9700 Pro Series VGA cards, use only the card version PN xxx-xxxxx-30 or later, for optimum performance and overcloking stability (chapter 2.6.4)." As I have just bought a Gigabyte Radeon 9800Pro (GV-R98P128D) Version : PN109-A07500-00 {SN0322009623} I began to worry. Is it compatible? Will it be stable if I OC it? Shall I have the optimum perfomance of my VGA ? If anyone can answer this .... (thanks)
  • amdecos - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link

    But what about the 512 vs 1 GB area? That is still expensive territory, especially if you want the higher speed DDR (>3500). Would 1 GB of 3200 DDR even out with 512K of 3500 DDR?
  • Icewind - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link

    #17
    Only thing that justifies more then a Gig of memory would be music or video editing and or CAD/arcitechure or an absolute crap load of multitasking.
  • amdecos - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link

    The test were based on 2x256 memory yes? Did you also look at 1GB (of 2 or 4 sticks)? Is there a real benefit to gaming by going to 1 GB or is this more a multi tasking benefit?
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link

    The whole Prescott support situation is still very clouded.

    Some motherboards might support initial lower speed Prescotts up to 1.5 specs, but not necessarily support later Prescotts (still 478 socket though) which require 2.0 level specs.

    So, be careful what you buy. Even if Abit says they will support Prescott, it doesn't mean that the board in question will support all socket 478 Prescott CPU's up to and including the 3.8GHz model.

    Just so that you know...
  • Anonymous User - Monday, September 1, 2003 - link

    #14 if you want maximum OC ability, do the Abit. If you want stability, get the ASUS. Im more for stability, so you know which one I chose and I couldn't be happier, my P4 just keeps going higher and higher the more I push the FSB
  • Anonymous User - Monday, September 1, 2003 - link

    This board seems solid but i am looking at 2 boards that i want the asus P4C800-E and the abit ic7-max3. Wesley when will you do a review on the ic7-max3 board??
  • Anonymous User - Monday, September 1, 2003 - link

    Awesome review, although I would be very interested in the PSU used in this review.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    I am thrilled that you are doing reviews for Anandtech now. You test and write for the enthusiast, and the overclocker in particular. This is just the direction that Anandtech needed to go to get me reading the articles again.
    Thanks a lot!
  • Wesley Fink - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    The Asus P4C800-E did NOT drop out of Dual-Channel running 4DS dimms faster than 800FSB. In that configuration, PAT was disabled, which made 4DS dimms about 1 to 2% slower than 2DS dimms. We still don't know if this is true with ALL 875P boards, i.e. an Intel issue, or if is an issue unique to Asus. 4 SS dimms run fine with PAT still working over 800FSB, as does any other configuration.

  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    So, then running 4 DIMMs of Corsair XMS LL Platinum 512 MB would be slower than just 2 DIMMs of that memory? Is it just PAT that is affected? I've heard that this board will slow the latency timings and drop out of dual-channel mode with 4 DIMMS. BTW, I heard this from a rich friend who bought a system from Falcon Northwest and asked them about using 4 DIMMs on this exact board. They said that it would slow the latency timings and drop out of dual-channel. Was this experienced during testing? Is it that Falcon Northwest doesn't know what they're talking about? Now I am very confused about this particular board.
  • Wesley Fink - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    Asus SAYS the P4C800-E is compatible with Prescott, but without a Prescott chip to test with we can not give a definitive answer.

    We did in fact run several benchmarks comparing the old and new when we began the memory testing for our DDR500 review, but found no real difference in performance between the old and new with both running 1.010 BIOS. That is why we did not publish performance tests comparing the two, and we stated there was no performance difference in our update. We did find memory compatibility better on the "E" and also reported that as well.
  • DrMrLordX - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    I second the request for information about this board's compatibility with Prescott.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    Jesus Christ, how can Anandtech readers be so stupid. Both the old and new ASUS revision are based on the EXACT SAME CHIPSET! It would be ridiculous to compare them, they both use the 875P chipset, the only difference is a couple onboard features that make the newer revision a better overall board and value.

    Christ, READ the reviews for god sakes.
  • PrinceGaz - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    I feel #3 had a very good point. Since it is a review which begins by comparing the old revision with the new one, not including both in the benchmarks was a mistake (assuming the figures are available).

    @#4: Telling everyone to go and compare the results from an older review is crazy; for the time it would take for them to be included, asking everyone who reads the review to go and read another simultaneously is stupid.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    #4
    Catch a clue. Go read the old review and compare them.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    So, why the heck did you not bench the old against the new. That is after all what all the bloody writing ia about. That should include a lan test. Get on it, do it. What a waste, waste, waste. Oh yea....what kind of memory can you use with the old revision?

    Useless information is everywhere.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    Outstanding review! What I'm missing though is information about the support for the Intel Prescott processor. Looking on the ASUS website and in the manual, it is stated that it is compatible but such claims have been made for other motherboards only to be withdrawn later. Is it compatible with FMB 1.5 and VIN 1.5 required for the Prescott?
    I'm also quite surprized that PAT is disabled if you have 4 DS dimms running at FSB bus speeds higher than 200Mhz. After reading "Searching for the Memory Holy Grail: Part 1", I had planned to go for 4 256MB Cosair TwinMX dimms instead of 2 512MB ones. I'm eagerly awaiting the answer you get from ASUS.
    Cheers,
    Manuel
  • Wesley Fink - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    Since this was an update to an earlier review, we did not cover features that would be discussed in a full review. However, I have tested AI overclocking on the P4C800-E and find it works very well.

    You set the desired overclock, and the boards adjusts all parameters for the most stable overclcoking performance. Overclocks up to 30% (around 1066 FSB) are possible using AI.
  • Anonymous User - Sunday, August 31, 2003 - link

    Would Like to know if you tested the much vaunted "Artificial Intelligence" overclocking ability of this board. This is something that mere mortals are very likely to use, rather than all the tinkering with FSB speeds and memory timing.

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