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I'm planning on getting a new system soon, and wanted to know if anyone knows if ASUS P3V is a good board. I am getting a PIII 800 and will be using a Geforce 2 GTS graphics card. I plan to do some overclocking as well. Any advice? Thanks.

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If you can, it might be worth waiting for the new AMD and Intel chips to come out soon. It looks like an interesting chip war is brewing, and AMD has a good chance of taking the lead.
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If you don't feel like waiting quite a few number of months I think a PIII 800 will serve you just fine. At the very most the fancy new chips everyone is coming out with will take you from 100fps to 110fps (you get the idea.) With the GF2 it's already gonna be pushin some pretty high frame rates and anything else will be merely for bragging rights.

GL w/ the new system ... and be sure to o/c the hell outta it ;)

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AMD has little chance of taking the lead, at least as of now. first off, intel is straight up superior. intel has many more manufacturing plants, so they can supply a lot faster than AMD. besides that, intel is a much more trusted brand among the masses than AMD. i mean if you were about to go buy a monitor, and your choice was between a sony and a farfenugen, same price, seemingly same quality, which would you buy? chances are the sony. most people buying things take brand name as a very important factor. plus, AMD's chips are no longer superior to those of intel at the same speed. AMD has a long long long way to go before it beats intel.
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I have the P3V4X. Lovely board. No problems so far. I run a Cel533 on it till I upgrade to a p3. It has a great probe program that depending on the other parts can monitor your fans, temp, voltage etc and warn you of problems. I have it set to start up on the space bar and all sorts of neat stuff.
It has all the bus space you need for a while and has a proven chipset.
Using it with a TNT2 m64 and have none of the problems some other users have reported with their NVIDIA chipset v-cards. The two work great with the 4x AGP. Do yourself a favor and get the latest drivers though.

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Thanks for all the tips guys, since I won't have enough money to get it right away, I've just been looking. I might wind up waiting, but my 450 is starting to cramp my style now.

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I might wind up waiting, but my 450 is starting to cramp my style now.

Then o/c the bitch ^_^

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It's already at 504, and won't go any higher. See my topic overclocking tips here: http://www.detonate.net/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000070.html

I used to be able to hit 124 FSB with my old motherboard, but the new one doesn't support that. And the PC100 RAM doesn't want to hit 133.

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Intel has already stated that in order to stay competitive with AMD they will be aiming there next chips at the "midend" market. This might mean that Intel will start to be associated with cheap systems, and AMD with high-end ones... who knows.

As for Intel's mfg plants, we've seen both companies not being able to meet demand in the recent past... I don't think that will make a differance.

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AMD has little chance of taking the lead, at least as of now. first off, intel is straight up superior. intel has many more manufacturing plants, so they can supply a lot faster than AMD. besides that, intel is a much more trusted brand among the masses than AMD. i mean if you were about to go buy a monitor, and your choice was between a sony and a farfenugen, same price, seemingly same quality, which would you buy? chances are the sony. most people buying things take brand name as a very important factor. plus, AMD's chips are no longer superior to those of intel at the same speed. AMD has a long long long way to go before it beats intel.
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mid-end is still what you would probably consider performance systems....a dual 1 ghz pc is mid-end. high end is sun microsystems and stuff like that.

intel does meet demands, it just meets it in a different way. AMD sells mostly to stores who sell them to you, and that sa large percentage of their business. intel sells not only to stores to sell to you, but also to a whole lot of brand name system companies, i.e. dell, micron, gateway, compaq etc...so theyve been able to meet that demand and still stay pretty close to AMD, so they do have a massive superiority by way of manufacturing.

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