upgrade to new system questions GA-SINXP1394 ?

[EvLwMn]

That RAM should be fine. Get 2 so you can take advantage of the dual DDR. But 2 should work just fine.

As far as your processor goes the P4 2.4b is the best bang for the buck right now and is an excellent processor. It's also HIGHLY OCable!

[Axl]

The Asus board looks sweet with B0 Stepping (no question about it), I am not sure if the Gigabyte one will be B0 or A0..sigh..

No-Alibi, could you please explain the difference between B0 stepping and A0. I might buy one of these boards myself and I want to know why it is significant.

EDIT: Are there any way to see if it is A0 or B0 by looking at the retail box or motherboard which version it is?

[No-Alibi]

Well from sources like OCworkbench:

"Believe it or not, this B0 stepping is 3 ~ 5% faster in certain benchmarks compared to its A0 stepping (according to our tests)."

Also B0 Stepping officaly supports HT on Intel CPUs, the A0 Stepping for at least Gigabyte boards has a Bios upgrade I guess to support HT.

So, anyways, not that I know of unless the seller pulls off the heatsink/fan off the mainboards chipset. (cough) I really doubt they(most sellers) would go this far, for its customers. So I doubt it's labeled on the outside of thier box. Maybe can write Gigabyte a email askn if thier is a serial number that identifys which boxed mainboard will have B0 stepping.

As of now I might wait.. on buying anything, Springdale/Canterwood? CPUs are just around next month(or next) I believe. Micron has already put out some support for the new Intel Chipsets/CPU that will support this so called 800Mhz fsb. Who knows, I guess I will wait.

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No-Alibi

[Foolhardy]

Sweet, a free 5% isn't bad at all

[Axl]

As of now I might wait.. on buying anything, Springdale/Canterwood? CPUs are just around next month(or next) I believe. Micron has already put out some support for the new Intel Chipsets/CPU that will support this so called 800Mhz fsb. Who knows, I guess I will wait.

Those new 800MHz FSB motherboards and processors will probably be very expensive in the beginning.

[Zooooot]

I believe the word "Intel" inherently means "Pay up the wazoo" in some foreign language.

[Axl]

As far as I know the E7205 boards overclock better than the SiS655 from what I've heard so it might even be faster than SiS655 when overclocked. Right now the GA-SINXP1394 seems only be available with A0 stepping so I wouldn't buy that one right now if you have the 3.06GHz hyperthreading P4.

I'm going for a lower P4 as I cannot afford the 3.06GHz so the A0 stepping isn't much of a problem for me.