Going to AMD

[kaz]

I've built a third system with an A7V133 and an AVIA "C" week 11, I just picked up a Santa Cruz to lessen the possibility of corruption, I am running the 1005x bios which has the fix in it. I'm running at 1360mhz (10x136) very stable, but don't want to go higher cause I'm not used to 50c Cpu temps...

[kaz]

If anyone is using an A7V133 and wants to knock 10c off of their Cpu temps there are some "fixed" bioses that add HLT instructions to rest your Cpu when doing stuff like this, I switched and my Cpu Idles at 36c now down from 46c. Here is the link:
http://brtech.hypermart.net/downloads.html

[DR1FT3R]

I was gonna go AMD for my next system when this Black Pearl thing showed up...geez...I just finished my current system...and I'm pretty much broke...and here I am sitting with this pretty board...oh well...this one's gonna be expensive. AMD or Intel...there is no real performance advantage clock for clock...it's very negligible in my opinion...and each one has their small advantages. AMD is succesful because their higher clocked chip cost just as much as a lower clocked P3... a 1Ghz T-bird=P3 850Mhz...go figure.

[Sir Skully]

I have 3 1/2 rigs and just put an Abit kt7a 1.2 AMD CPU in one of them. Not the 1/2 rig! lol... The reason I went this way was money and a plethora of oc'ing options. I will put water cooling in this rig, have parts ordered. So far everything runs great oc'ed to 1400 Vcore @180.

[kaz]

I would have tended to agree with you, however the Sandra numbers don't lie and now AMD is selling all their CPU's 1.2 and over with unlocked multipliers, so you definately have more overclocking options before you run your cards and HD's completely out of spec with an outrageous FSB overclock only...

[DaSilva]

Here's what i want:

Asus dual Pentium 3 board with DDR memory and if possible running on a intel chipset!

LOL I guess this is just wishfull thinking or is there a baord on it's way with the abve specs?

[bennt]

Asus dual Pentium 3 board with DDR memory and if possible running on a intel chipset!

DDR memory won't do much for the PIII cpu, as it can't take advantage of the increased bandwidth. This also holds true for SMP systems, as the Intel architecture only has one bus for the memory. So, in a dual cpu system, the cpu's have to share the memory bus. And since the memory bus in an SMP system is the same as a single system, using DDR memory won't do much if anything.

The new AMD smp system looks very promising though, as each cpu has its own bus. We'll see just how good it is when it comes out, but I'm looking forward to it.

That all said, dual DDR motherboards for PIII are on their way (Via most likely, not Intel). I'm not holding my breath for those though.

[SmokiN9]

Actually ASUS already has a intel DDR mobo out on their site, its been there for a little while arlready. http://asus.com/products/motherboard...266/index.html

[bennt]

The CUV266 is a Via chipset MB, and it is only single cpu. We were talking about SMP specifically.