HI,

So if I am getting the 8300 with the P4, 3Ghz (800FSB) then it should support HT?

Thanks

hey,

The 8300 does support hyperthreading, but you need a processor that supports it to have hyper threading.  The Pentium 4s that support hyperthreading are the 3.06 Ghz model and any P4 with an 800 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).

As for SATA, the Intel ICH 5 southbridge controller supports two serial ATA connectors and twon normal ide connectors.  I would suspect that the 8300 would be the same.

Dimension XPS R400
P2 400 MHz/ 100MHz FSB
128 Mb PC 100 SD RAM
40 Gb & 13 Gb Maxtor HDs
32 Mb TNT 2 Pro
Windows 98 SE
50x CD ROM
CD RW
Intagrated Audio

Home Built:

Asus P4C800 Deluxe
P4 3.0 GHz/ 800MHz FSB
1 Gb PC 3200 DDR SDRAM
120 Gb & 80 Gb Western Digital HDs with 8 Mb cahce
128 Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Windows XP
16x Lite ON DVD
52x Lite ONCD RW
Audigy 2

Yes

Dimension XPS R400
P2 400 MHz/ 100MHz FSB
128 Mb PC 100 SD RAM
40 Gb & 13 Gb Maxtor HDs
32 Mb TNT 2 Pro
Windows 98 SE
50x CD ROM
CD RW
Intagrated Audio

Home Built:
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
P4 3.0 GHZ/ 800 MHz FSB
1 Gb PC 3200
120 Gb & 80 Gb WD HDDs with 8 Mb Cache
128 Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Windows XP Pro
16x Lite On DVD
52x Lite On CD RW
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Antec LAnboy Case

"Sweeeeeeeet" :)

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@JibQ wrote:

hey,

The 8300 does support hyperthreading, but you need a processor that supports it to have hyper threading.  The Pentium 4s that support hyperthreading are the 3.06 Ghz model and any P4 with an 800 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB).

As for SATA, the Intel ICH 5 southbridge controller supports two serial ATA connectors and twon normal ide connectors.  I would suspect that the 8300 would be the same.

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Hi Area_51,

So does that mean 8300 doesnt have the onboard SATA controller?  Because I was looking at the 8300 user guide the support section, and from looking at the motherboard diagram, it does have 2 SATA connector.  Is that not the case?

The 8300 still has two SATA connectors on the mobo.

Dimension XPS R400
P2 400 MHz/ 100MHz FSB
128 Mb PC 100 SD RAM
40 Gb & 13 Gb Maxtor HDs
32 Mb TNT 2 Pro
Windows 98 SE
50x CD ROM
CD RW
Intagrated Audio

Home Built:
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
P4 3.0 GHZ/ 800 MHz FSB
1 Gb PC 3200
120 Gb & 80 Gb WD HDDs with 8 Mb Cache
128 Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
Windows XP Pro
16x Lite On DVD
52x Lite On CD RW
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Antec LAnboy Case

"Sweeeeeeeet" :)

I got my 8300 last week with the 3.00GHz 800MHz FSB processor and dual-channel 400MHz DDR memory.

The 8300 Has 2 UDMA IDE connectors (2x2 IDE devices) and 2 S-ATA connectors (2 devices, NO RAID-0).

The shipping 120Gb harddisk is not very fast and is holding the system back, i ordered the Western-Digital Raptor S-ATA 10.000rpm 5.2ms harddisk (36,7Gb) and i will use this as system-disk. The "Old" 120Gb harddisk will be used for data-storage.

Check out the fancy CPU-cooler!

And the S-ATA connectors.

So...basically you're going to make it run (almost) the way an Alienware would with 2 SATA Raptor HDD's in Raid 0 array as Dell should have just done from the beginning.....

Hi Mko,

Sure the heatsink look differernt compare to the other I seen in the past.

At least compare to the standard dell heatsink.

Just before you get your sata drive, i have read on the dell manual saying you can't mix ata and sata drive together?  is that ture?  But surelly that can't be right, since you will uses one of the ATA channel  for your CD/DVD anyway.

I have just ordered mind, and I am hoping they will put a IBM drive in rather then WB, since the IBM drive runs abit faster then the WD.  I might get the WDSATA drive if I found somewhere have it instock!!  Or I could use a U320 drive instead.

I am still thinking the 250w PSU isn't enought for such system, they should have at least put a 300w+.  ATI recommanded to uses at least a 300W PSU with using the Radion 9800 card.

Thanks