Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I think I will dig a little deeper in my
pocket and go for the faster memory and the 2500+ Barton. I just needed a
little nudge in that direction. I don't really know if I will be playing
around with overclocking all that soon, however, it sounds like this would
be a nice setup to do this.
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John A
"AJ" wrote in message
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I am looking at building my first system, and I have a question related
to
FSB speed and memory speed. For example, if I were to get a Biostar M7NCD
that supports either PC2100 (266), PC2700 (333), PC3200 (400), do I have
to
be running my FSB at the matching speed to take advantage of the faster
memory?
For immediate advantage yes.
For instance, if I would get a AMD XP 1800 such that I run by FSB at
266, would it be a waste to go for the PC2700 or PC3200 (unless of course
I
plan to upgrade the processor in the future)?
I would get the fastest. It could run more stable and you can add a
faster CPU later for very little. Now that chips are plummeting. The
2500+ Barton was $83 at newegg a few weeks back. Run with PC3200 RAM
that over clocks perfect at 3200+!
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