help building a high end P4 desktop

yoda01

Hi,

I am building a high end P4 desktop I like games and I like to
overclock

The spec I am thinking about is............



Pentium 4 2.8GHz 'B' (533) Northwood.
Asus P4T533-C Mainboard S478/533 mhz LAN
I850E, ATA/100, ATX, USB2.0, 1066mhz RD

256Mb Rambus PC1066 32bit RDRAM (RIMM4200) Samsung,

ATI 9700
Enermax PSU ATX 450W (P-4) Silent Plus Series for P4/AMD

Sony Floppy Drive 3,5" 1,44MB MPF-920 Floppy Drive, Internal

LG DVD drive IDE 16x/48x (DRD-8160B)


Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE 7200RPM Special Edition 8MB cache WD800JB

Coolermaster case ATX 200


PS...I am open to your advice on the above spec..if your think there is
better components let me know...

Regards,
Yoda

Gerry

Buy a lower speed northwood, the 2.8 costs the earth. The 2.53 chip will clock almost as high and cost a lot less. The idea of overclocking is to save you money.

aidan_dunne

How about jacking the RAM up to 512 MB, if you can afford it? PC's always like more RAM!

astrofool

an i845pe with ddr400 ram would probably overclock more and be faster than the rdram combo, going by reviews and benchmarks anyway (would save yourself a bit on ram, not much tho, but ddr400 is still cheaper)

yoda01

Thanks for the replys
I hear the new Intel 7205 Granite Bay chipset looks to be the way to go and its supporting dual channel DDR
and 8x AGP


Got the coolermaster ATC 200 case today its very well made.
I also looked at the 201 and 101 but the 200 looks the best to me
the black and aluminium works well

po0k

Gainward GF4 TI4600 128Meg VIVO dual DVI out or a deluxe ATI 9700 card.

A bay-bus/LCD might be a nice for for the case too.

yoda01

Intel's Granite Bay Chipset Hits Market Ahead Of Competition

According to DigiTimes, Intel will apparently be the first chipmaker out there to begin mass-production of a dual-channel-DDR-based Pentium 4 chipset, the Granite Bay (previously thought to be designed for servers and workstations only). As a result, motherboards that will support this chipset are likely to enter volume production by early October. However, Intel isn't necessarily at an advantage by getting their dual channel product out first:



"Though gaining an earlier time-to-market, Intel’s Granite Bay chipset may not be the product with most advanced specifications when Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies launch their respective SiS655 and the P4X600 in the fourth quarter.

Sources noted that Intel’s Granite Bay supports only DDR266, while both the SiS655 and P4X600 are based on DDR333 architecture. Moreover, the Granite Bay requires two identical DDR modules, but the SiS655 allows users to mix modules of different capacity, thus enabling a much cheaper solution."
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Originally posted by yoda01
Got the coolermaster ATC 200 case today its very well made.
I also looked at the 201 and 101 but the 200 looks the best to me
the black and aluminium works well

Lovely case.
201 is nice aswell
110 is the best CM from what i've heard and seen.

Got a look at a 201 a while ago and its build quality is top notch