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    Parhelia Retail and Canterwood

    Hi:

    I am going to upgrade to a Canterwood motherboard in the near future (4-6 wks). Am looking at Abit, Gigabyte, MSI or Intel. Are there any issues with the Parhelia 128 retail and the canterwood chipset? I assume that Parhelia will scale well from my current setup (see signature). Is that a correct assumption? Any other insights? Will be running it with 1 Gb Mushkin PC3200 2-2-2 and Western Digital 160JB special edition hard drive. And either a 2.8C or 3.06C CPU.

    Thx

    P.
    Last edited by pgde; 18 May 2003, 10:59.
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    Take Abit out that list, and replace with Supermicro. That is the only insight I can offer
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    • #3
      Re: Parhelia Retail and Canterwood

      Originally posted by pgde
      Hi:

      I am going to upgrade to a Canterwood motherboard in the near future (4-6 wks). Am looking at Abit, Gigabyte, MSI or Intel. Are there any issues with the Parhelia 128 retail and the canterwood chipset? I assume that Parhelia will scale well from my current setup (see signature). Is that a correct assumption? Any other insights? Will be running it with 1 Gb Mushkin PC3200 2-2-2 and Western Digital 160JB special edition hard drive. And either a 2.8C or 3.06C CPU.

      Thx

      P.
      Yes, take Abit out of that list...

      I've played a bit with the other 3. So far I'd say Intel has my vote (note: I'm not big on OCing or IDE RAID). Price is reasonable and layout is good.

      Dunno about the P running smoothly on them though...

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      • #4
        It looks like in about 6 weeks, I wil be buying a Gigabyte with the Canterwood. and a P4 CPU (at least 2.66 GIG HZ CPU). I am freaking out thinking about actually being able to fly in something faster than this old
        P3-450... CPU... and looking at the Radeon 9700 Pro.. Video (sorry Matrox, but my loyalties will go to the best, for my purpose)
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        Canterwood has the Intel 87P Chipset, and DDR RAM (DDR400 looks good)
        The Gigabyte offers a few models....the most expensive is expensive...
        GA-8KNXP (ultra) almost $400
        GA-8KNXP $230
        GA-8IK100 $140

        These prices are rounded..... most likely you can find them cheaper...

        better I give the link than explain..
        http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...roduct_List.htm



        anyone have these let us know...reviews from others we know are nice..
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        My old Matrox G400 Marvel wil go to my daughter and wife's computer. That is if it can handle a a faster CPU, something over 1 GIG ZH P4. until now it was confined to a P3-450 CPU. I still want the G400 Marvel video MPEG hardware options, for video files from our digital camcorder.

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        I looked at tests and comparisons for the Matrox Parhelia Video card, and it was only at the 1/2 way mark in the test of the lowest to highest. i was suprised and was hoping it was near the top, in performance, but it was far from it. Last 2 new cards I purchased were Matrox.
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        • #5
          No Asus in that list? I always get Asus boards and never have had a problem with any of them. (Well, some of the layout of the P4PE made me think "why the hell did they do that?") My board has been rock stable though.

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          • #6
            I'm waiting for the Gigabyte Canterwood GA-8KNXP to appear in quantity - from the Gigabyte newgroups it sounds as if they're quite picky about the type of RAM that gets stuffed in them - it seems faster RAM (than DDR 400) works better and a newer BIOS helps too.

            There's some consternation about the performance of one of the RAID controllers...

            I'm not worried about the Ultra version as it's got SCSI adapter - okay it will be quick, but SCSI drives are expensive and I prefer quantity rather than blistering performance.

            I'm looking using a P750 with RT.X10 - fingers crossed they'll work or I'm going to be really hacked off!

            If you get your's before I get mine - tell us how you get on!

            Good luck,

            Taliska
            Gigabyte GA-8KNXP, Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1Gbyte DDR400 RAM
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            • #7
              MSI likes the latest bios as well. Otherwise crash in dual channel mode. Remove Abit.
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              • #8
                The Asus boards are nice.

                If you arent going to overclock, I'd just get an Intel board.
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                • #9
                  I got the MSI 875 board (875P Neo FIS2R) with a 3.0C OCed to ~3.5 GHz, 2 Gb of PC3200 RAM, a 550W PSU and just about everything I could add (9 HDs, SCSI, ...); I have no issues with my new retail Parhelia hardware-wise.

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                  • #10
                    what's your FSB speed?

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                    • #11
                      15 x 235 MHz == 3525 MHz

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                      • #12
                        Just Curious, why no ABIT ?
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                        • #13
                          Chinese New Year with the caps on ABIT I think.

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                          • #14
                            Ah because I had a VP6 and now a BD7-II and no problems at all, so reading that scared me
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                            • #15
                              Originally, Abit boards were picky with memory too. After having various compatibility problems with the brand, we do not carry it anymore. To me they look like the VIA of board makers (even if VIA also make boards... ). They have fast products but they're always plagues by problems they can't seem to resolve (even if they produced some excellent boards -it's just you need to change the whole system if you want the motherboard to accept all you put on it...well, I exaggerate a bit but you get the meaning)

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