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RAM. whats the diff?
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Posted by: Fred
If I buy one stick of PC 3200 DDR 512 Ram as opposed to one stick of PC 2700 DDR 512 will I notice a preformance differecne worth the 70 bucks more that the 3200 is? also what is the diff between 3200 and 2700?
Posted by: Null Actor
First, you'll need a motherboard that can use the ram that fast. If you don't, you won't notice a performance increase.
The difference is the speed the ram can be run at. If your motherboard can't go that fast, however, the ram will run at the slower speed. Considering most boards right now only do PC2100, you probably won't need anything more unless your motherboard supports 333mhz ram speeds.
Posted by: Gunslinger
As far as I know, only the very latest boards from VIA, SiS, and Intel, depending on your processor, even support 2400.
I've not heard of a chipset in existence that currently supports 3200, on the market at least.
Posted by: Swilo
Anything above 2400 is overclocker material, don't spend your extra money on it.
Posted by: Sarc
Not for $70!
Based on currently available chipsets, you'd be better off spending that money on PC2100 or PC2400 RAM that supported CL2.
If you're already running DDR, you might want to wait on any special upgrade, the MHz will always grow, but I've heard that they're working on RAM with a CAS rating of 1.5. That would be nice.
Posted by: Shaggy
A long these lines, a board that has "Memory: Four 184-pin DIMM sockets support up to 4 GB PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM module" can still use the old PC 100 and PC 133 memory right? It just the faster speeds won't be realized?
Posted by: Sarc
Um... 95% + of the time... no.
The pin-out on DDR RAM as opposed to PC100/133 is different. So you can't put a PC100/133 board in a DDR slot or vice versa.
Sorry.
The other 5% +/- accounts for the rare boards that offered both slots, usually two DDR and two PC133 slots.
I don't know for sure, but I don't think you could use them together.
And just for the specifics, DDR RAM uses a 184 pin module, PC100/133 uses a 168 pin module.
Posted by: Grimlock
This mobo will take PC2700 DDr ram
http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webj...EL_NAME=KX7-333
as does this one
http://www.gbt-tech.co.uk/products/7vrx.htm
and this one
http://www.spacewalker.com/english/....asp?number=183
guess what, so does this one
http://www.epox.nl/english/products...ard/ep-8k3a.htm
here's a nice review on the asus A7V333
http://www.motherboards.org/article...ews/1175_1.html
Dont think it supports above 2100, but twin XP 1900's baby YEAH!!!
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