I'm looking at an upgrade in the next couple months, any suggestions?

scobywhru · May 11, 2003, 08:07 AM

isn't that the reason the KT400a chipsets aren't going to be Dual Channel? There just going to be optimizing the bus to and from the CPU and some other components

~~Crash Override~~ · May 12, 2003, 02:10 AM

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Originally posted by Asuka
Originally posted by eyeguy616
Well, what if I stick with the Barton cpu and just overclock it a little? Would the Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro be able to overclock it normally, ie. with multiplier and FSB? Also, this ram stick will probably be the one I buy since it's very fast and not as expensive as others.

Bad idea... DDR400 isn't of any use with a 2600+ Cpu w/ 333MHz FSB. Actually, you'll get even less performance than with DDR333 memory, because memory and Cpu is running asynchronous
Really bad idea no. 2 is getting one 512MB stick - you definitely should rather get 2*256MB as this will enable you using the DualChannel feature, which will give you a nice performance boost

You can tell PC3200 memory to run at PC2700 synchronized to the FSB without an issue at all

Vamp what I was meaning was if you run the PC3200 memory at PC2700 then your bandwidth should be saturated

Vampyromaniac · May 12, 2003, 02:31 AM

I don't think you could ever hit 100% usage, due to memory latency . . .
Perhaps if you could get your memory to run at 0-0-0, maybe then

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