fastest motherboard+CPU combo

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What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
money? (like 400 bucks or so)
I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
slowing it down dosen't fix it)
So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
TIA
John

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"John" <user@user.com> wrote in message
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> What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and then
> over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board clocked
> to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
> because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
> TIA
> John
>

I can't say if it's the fastest under $400 but I recently got an Athlon XP
3200+ Barton and Asus A7V600-X along with 512 MB of PC3200 for $300.. but
here's the fastest I could find at $400.

http://www.partspc.com/store/product615.html

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"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <user@user.com> writes:
> >What is the Fastest motherboard CPU combo within a reasonable amout of
> >money? (like 400 bucks or so)
> >I am tempeted to go with the MSI KN8 Neo 2 - Platinum and a 3000+ and
then
> >over clock it. I have been running a 2500+ barton on an Asus board
clocked
> >to 3200+ but now am getting scrambled data on the drives and think it is
> >because of the over clock, (it's been that way for over 2 years, even
> >slowing it down dosen't fix it)
> >So I am looking for a new board and chip....I do mostly video work.......
> >TIA
> >John
>
> I don't do video. I do number crunching.
>
> When I coax someone into benchmarking plausibly priced faster board/cpu
> than my old dependable 2000/ecs it seems that even the AMD 64 3200 gets
> no more than perhaps 50% faster results than mine, often not that much.
>
> So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
> two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
> have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
> to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
> when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
> double or triple the current speed.
What's ur point, a server? That would be way over the 400$
It took me almost a year to get this Dual Xeon together.
I'd like to see a Dual chip like AMD's Athlon FX55
with 1,000 MHz FSB @ 2,000 MHz Effective bus.
Speaking of which, I read not so long ago a page trying to put the thing
down.
Hell, they only ran like 10 or more tests that Intel has been know for being
good @ for a while.
Then some tests were very scetchy.
Sorry 4 that...
RavingRaichu.. ;-) :-)

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"RaichuRaichu" <ravingraichu@comcast.net> writes:
>"Don Taylor" <dont@agora.rdrop.com> wrote in message
>> So, for the video folks who want more speed, what about putting together
>> two or three or four cheap systems, cheaper perhaps than even what you
>> have now, slice the video into 2 or 3 or 4 pieces, farm out one piece
>> to each box via gigabit ethernet, and paste the pieces back together
>> when they are finished? Seems to me that would be the only way to get
>> double or triple the current speed.
>>
>What's ur point, a server? That would be way over the 400$

Sorry, I must not have been clear. Let me try again.

2 or 3 or 4 each
$75 or $85 motherboard and semperon from Fry's on sale
sets of 512 meg $50/stick memory on sale
dirt cheap used ATX case with no supply.
$35 ATX supply from Fry's on sale.
$20 cheap kvm switch just to keep it happy and handle jobs
boot off the net from your existing machine/drive.

I hope this description was more clear.

You should be able to get 2 of those built for your $400.
That should give you twice your current performance.
You won't get that by buying any single board and cpu I know of.

> It took me almost a year to get this Dual Xeon together.
>I'd like to see a Dual chip like AMD's Athlon FX55
> with 1,000 MHz FSB @ 2,000 MHz Effective bus.

I'd like to find a bargain priced multiprocessor 64 bit cpu board
but I'm just not finding it. Or even a single processor board
for an Opteron, just as an experiment. Board prices are several
times the prices of cheap systems.

>Speaking of which, I read not so long ago a page trying to put the thing
>down.
>Hell, they only ran like 10 or more tests that Intel has been know for being
>good @ for a while.
>Then some tests were very scetchy.
>Sorry 4 that...
>RavingRaichu.. ;-) :-)

Having fair benchmarks that really represent what you
are going to use the machine for are very important.
Way too many people make claims about speed and don't
use a stopwatch to see what they really get.

And just to be VERY clear, I'm not criticizing any brand
or model processor. I just try to get cheap crunching done.