Canterwood Qs

[Player0]

Hi guys,

I'm starting to build my first P4 system for home (not counting my dually xeons). It's going to be a Prometia chilled Canterwood system from the looks of things. I'm sorry, I dont have enough time to go reading through everyones experiences here at the moment, but I was hoping the answers would come to me ;)

I'm an Abit fan and have an IC7-G coming for one of my work systems, but I hear good things about the MSI Neo board. But Ive only heard in terms of stock clocks. Will the Abit overclock better?

What about the 2.4C? It's certainly affordable, but I want top notch performance. Is the 2.4C just a renamed 3.0C (givin all the stock volt overclocks Ive seen with them). If I'm overclocking, and want to hit 1000mhz FSB, in terms of P4 multipliers which are locked of course, which CPU would be the best to get? The 2.4C has a 12x multiplier, so at 1000mhz its 3GHz, but that doesnt leave a lot of room for CPU scaling with the Prommy. I was thinking maybe a 2.6/2.8C P4 would be the sweetspot? A 3.0C or a 3.2C multiplier might be too high to get a high FSB yes?

I also tend to use Corsair XMS ram. The choices these days are XMS3200LL and XMS3500. I'm gonna need soemthing to hit 250mhz reliably with good timings, perhaps Corsair isnt my best option. But in terms of 3200LL and 3500, which is actually better? Or are they really just the same darn thing?

Thanks guys :)

[JBELL]

Mricee is working on the ABIT IC7 right now, Opp has the MSI neo and I have a Gigabyte based canterwood - we should have all the info out soon .....


as for ram?

I think we all have the Corsair XMS pc3200 256mb modules.

as for the cpu?

2.4c is getting a lot of ravs but it looks like the 2.8c is better... but I am not 100% on that.

[OPPAINTER]

Player good to see you my friend:)

The MSI isn't a very good clocker, powerful but it will hold your chip back.
I perfer the Asus P4C over the IC7 myself, the Asus would be my suggestion.

OPP

[Player0]

I have my TwinX 3200LL, my 2.4C and my IC7-G ready for a workstation here at work. I'm dying over here! I got me one of them new WD Raptors too for it. Damn UPS ground is going to take forever with my Directron shipment though, probably be another week before I get this one up.

The Asus eh? I'll look in to that, thanks Op. Asus is actually my second choice in terms of brands. The one thing that keeps me away from Asus time and time again is the damn BIOS though. I especially hate when Im overclocking, and the machien doesnt boot right...that i have to go reset all my bios settings. Have they ever fixed that problem? Or have they spent most of their time making BIOS talk still? :)

SOunds like the 2.8C is where to be for overclocking. I wish I could get an engineering sample...no multiplier woes then.