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wcoxe1 wrote on 4/14/2003, 6:24 PM
Unfortunately, on the day this LONG awaited chipset was announced, Intel posponed the shipment of the Pentium IV 3.2GHz chip it was designed for.

So, I will wait a little while longer. I figure by Christmas the whole scene and integration will be ironed out and be reliable.

MEANWHILE, all of you first adopters, please, rush out and buy these the minute that they are available. The more the better. Experience shows that after the initial surge of early adopters, the price drops. I'll be in that second group.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/14/2003, 11:16 PM
Now we all just need the mother of all bank accounts to go out and afford everything that would give us an advantage with this board. :) 800mhzfsb.. wowie... Anyone remember when a 4mhz XT was fast? :)
Jay_Mitchell wrote on 4/15/2003, 12:53 AM
From all that i've read about these new Chipsets and Intel's roadmap marketing plans - you can expect the price of these new chipsets to be around what the P4 3.06 was and the P4 3.06 to be reduced.

I just read a Press Release on Digital Video Editing there are already bugs reported and Intel is going to hold up shipments.

I'll keep you posted,

Jay Mitchell
TorS wrote on 4/15/2003, 1:00 AM
When IBM introduced the PC AT in Norway (1985 or 86), the ad ran: This machine is so powerful we had to put a lock on it.
I bought one, and let me tell you: I've seen Japanese cars built less sturdy than that thing. The harddisk was all of 20 MB and the size of a 10-pack of cds in jewel cases.
Tor
RBartlett wrote on 4/15/2003, 4:11 AM
If it is fast final renders that you want, consider Xeon or Opteron. These have at least one PCI contention bus, most have 533MB/sec PCI64@66 buses. DV is 3.6MB/sec but what if you want to render 60 mins in less than 60 minutes (or 16 hours if authoring DV into HQ-DVD).

i875 will give you good fast DVEs, but to get DV or better through the NLE or DVD encoder for increases in throughput, an E7505 board is hard to follow. OK, M$ hobble it with DirectShow performance trying to hold you back to 1x stream playback, but SoFo will replace M$ code where they can with stuff that scales with CPU and IO throughput.

SuperMicro X5DAL-TG2 triple bus (1x PCI64 _bus_, another 1x PCI64 _bus_, 1x PCI32 _bus_, and 1x AGP8x slot/bus) isn't much more than twice a consumer motherboard. Xeon 604 CPUs are about the same price as the PIV counterparts, just lower spec for clockspeed. ATX case OK, PIV PSU OK, SATA-150, half decent onboard audio.

E7505 is already established. Memory bandwidth is important but 800MHz doesn't buy you double the original 400MHz FSBs from the benchmarks I've seen.

My 0.2

Good to see new gear always though. Every 11% improvement takes us to nicer levels of productivity! i875 has one mean GigEth port on it. 266MB/sec non-contention to chipset bus all to itself. Anyone got a 320GB 125MB/sec-sustained:6msec-seek GigE SAN they can lend me?
dvdmike wrote on 4/15/2003, 8:01 PM

I'm running dual Xeon 2.8 on a 400FSB with 64 bit / 66 MHZ raid U160 15K and its STILL not fast enough, going to 800 FSB would likely only be a modest improvement. Save your money until the bugs are fixed and the prices come down....my 2cents
rebel44 wrote on 4/17/2003, 11:17 PM
I do remember XT and was fast, but that time there was no windows and programs was written in assemble language.Imagine how fast would be computer today if windows would be in ROM chip and all programs written in assemble?.