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> > ASUS P4T-E motherboard
> > INTEL P4 1.8 Northwood (at least)
>
> OK, here is something I have wondered about.  Do these two lines
completely
> specify what you are getting, or are there variations on this
> motherboard/CPU
> combination that can introduce other performance variables?

Every other board I researched seemed to have issues with chipsets (bad
memory bandwidth (either through the chipset or through using 'legacy'
memory such as SDRAM ..., poor PCI bandwidth, or both or flaky
implementations of one thing or another. I'm not claiming that the P4T-E is
perfect but I have yet to see a problematic review. Actually the only issue
seems to be that your AGP card must be able to work at 1.5 (or is it 1.33??)
volts or else it will melt the motherboard!! The Asus P4T-E allows you to
use the latest Intel northwood (P4) processors to the max. Beofre this I was
goign to go with an AMD system but I had yet to find a motherboard that
would have suited

Actually if you are in the states you might check out http://www.pcnut.com
they do systems for gamers which have specs that would suit audio
workstations, check out the overclockers section. They sell pretested
overclocked systems that run without problems. Some people dont like
overclocked systems btu I've never experienced a problem that went away when
I stopped overclocking (in other words it wasnt caused by overclocking :) )
There are other sites for info such as www.anandtech.com and
www.tomshardware.com which do reviews of products.

Best of luck and Keep tracking!

regards
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