Which would give better performance P4B vs P4S8X

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Hello everyone.

I've got both of these boards and want to run a P4 2.4GHz (400MHz FSB)
CPU. I wanted to know how much of a performance difference would it be
running one board over the other. Basically everything else would be the
same i.e. video, sound, network card etc.

Thank you in advance
 
Jiggy said:
Hello everyone.

I've got both of these boards and want to run a P4 2.4GHz (400MHz FSB)
CPU. I wanted to know how much of a performance difference would it be
running one board over the other. Basically everything else would be the
same i.e. video, sound, network card etc.
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But not the memory, of course. The P4S8X would win by a large margin
simply because it uses DDR SDRAM, a board with SDR SDRAM offers too
little memory bandwidth.

Stephan
 
Stephan Grossklass said:
But not the memory, of course. The P4S8X would win by a large margin
simply because it uses DDR SDRAM, a board with SDR SDRAM offers too
little memory bandwidth.

Stephan
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Some people used to claim that using more than a 1.8GHz P4 on the P4B
would be a waste, due to memory bandwidth starvation by SDRAM.

As for the P4S8X, isn't that the board that had the Vcore power supply
problems ? (I think the P4S8X-X is OK.) You might be OK using the
2.4GHz on it, but overclocking the 2.4GHz or using a 3.06GHz may
lead to instability. Use the search engine on abxzone.com for more
details.

Here are some sample threads:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=48828 (bios comment)
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=34478 (links page)
http://www.overclockers.com/articles686 (early review)

Paul
 
Hello everyone.

I've got both of these boards and want to run a P4 2.4GHz (400MHz FSB)
CPU. I wanted to know how much of a performance difference would it be
running one board over the other. Basically everything else would be the
same i.e. video, sound, network card etc.

Thank you in advance
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Thats what I've been told that the memory constraints placed on the bus
with SDR SDRAM would restrict the P4B's performance ratings.

Thanks to both replies.
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The P4S8X has an SIS chipset. They frequently, but no always, have timing
problems. I'd use the P4B.
 
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