P4P800 Deluxe /friend or foe

I've been saving a little here and there; to piece together a new
system. After researching and reading some positive reviews,
I bought the P4P800 Deluxe.

I just started reading this group, and I see many disgruntled P4P
owners.

Can anyone offer some optimism ... or did I already make a mistake.
thanks

N

PS I'm looking to use Corsair Twinx 1024-3200C2 memory?
Anyone try it ... or can anyone make any other suggestions.

This information is greatly appreciated.

 

Great board. You will see complaints on popular boards because many people
have them. Also, many have no clue as to what they are doing, which
generates more complaints.

Todd

 

Just about all users don't post when the board is working fine. Bound to be
a few problems pop up here and there.
Billh

 

To all:

Thanks for the feedback
N

 

Its not really so much complaints as it is newbies who are trying to set up
a mobo for the first time. My first DIY rig was with a P4S8X, i really
learned ALOT about mobos with that board, so when i built my friends
p4p800deluxe based rig last month, took 1hr to tweak bios with no
problems... but... experiance does make the process smoother...

course most mobo problems are due to ram, always get corsair xms type, pay
more but worth every penny.

 

I just completed my P4P800 Deluxe, as the 5th computer I've assembled. The
most difficult part of the whole thing was reading and reading motherboard
specs, reviews and comments. For me, the winning features were: not in any
particular order:
Built-in LAN
SATA
Front panel USB, Firewire, and audio headers
Built-in not-too-bad audio
AGP X8 video card slot
Dual channel DDS memory capability
memory channel speed scales down to my PC2100 sticks
Runs just about any currently available P4 chips
AND many other minor things, as well as my previous good experiences with
Asus motherboards.

Bottom line is that I am as pleased as punch with my new 'puter. DVD
burning, mass MP3 storage, fantastic speed working with Paint Shop Pro. The
only thing I haven't tried yet, but am really anxious to get going, is MS
Flight Simulator with a decent USB joy stick. (What is a decent, low cost
USB joystick with twist grip for rudder?)

There have been no problems that I did not create myself, and the learning
curve of networking through a broadband router is steeper than I had counted
on.

This board is a really great compromise. It doesn't do everything, of
course, but I can't find one that does more of the things that I wanted to
do.

"Two thumbs up"

Old Chief Lynn

 

llamaboiz wrote:

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There are other brands of excellent quality but less expensive
(Crucial/Micron, Infineon...).

Roy

 

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I bought the p4p800dlx to put in a new system for my daughter a couple of
months ago. I'd always been an Intel prior to this. Once everything was up
and running, I liked the board so much, that I decided to keep it for
myself. It was easy to setup and has been rock solid. If you take your time
setting it up, you won't be disappointed.
As for memory, this has no problem with Kingston or Elixir.

btw...I put a p4s800,(a good board also), in my daughter's box.

Curt.

 

Great board but with some minor drawbacks that I discovered:

* The POST default setting is to report CPU fan failure when the CPU fan speed
is below a certain value. This feature is not compatible with thermistor
controlled fans that run at a low speed at power-on. Maybe using the Q-fan
setting solves this but then the fan speed will not be low enough for a
significant fan noise reduction

* The SATA IF does not support RAID1 (although claimed so by the ASUS web page,
maybe later issues has changed), reducing the possibility of combining high
performance and high reliability

*The SATA IF is the third IDE controller which means that if it is partitioned
in more than one disk the CD or DVD will default be disk D: and the other hard
disks E:, F: etc

* The slow boot problem can occur for some configurations but the User's Manual
doesn't give a hint on how to solve the problem

* The offered binding is a bit poor. One woud have liked more
panels/cables/connectors for the additional interfaces that are available on the
board

I also found that the Auto CPU voltage setting gives a voltage that is too high
(2,6 GHz P4, 1,6 V vs 1,525 V max according to the CPU box), but maybe that
could be an error in the monitoring.

This is my 6th computer assembly, been working with others like Jetway (with old
AMD K6!!), EPOX, QDI and other ASUS boards. This is the most feature rich board
I've used and with as little problems as with the other boards. Actually the
only boards that died for me was an ASUS P3V4X (IDE controller broke down).

 

You can certainly change the assigned drive letters if you're using WIndows XP.
Check in Admin Tools....Comp Management....Disk Management.
Gene

 

FOE!

I had good success with the P4P800 but they are discontinued now (Of
course) replaced by the P4P800-ES. Stay away from it if you intend to
use the lan port. I bought 10 of them and they are all going back to
the hole they blew out of.