- Nov 10, 2000
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Hey All,
I'm almost done buying my other system components. The last will be CPU/Memory/MB. The reason was that I wanted to give plenty of time for the PC2100 DDR memory to come out and for motherboards to support it. You can order some memory from Micron I think already but I don't know if they're shipping. And of course the 1.2 Ghz CPU. I was waiting on the Asus A7M66 but I haven't seen those for sale yet.
Then I read some things that said the new DDR memory wasn't giving the performance boost people were expecting so it may not be worth the wait.
My Question is this: If I decide NOT to wait for all that and go with PC133 (Or higher if I find any) and a 1.2 Ghz Athlon is it worth it? I see most motherboards non DDR are not using the full power of the 1.2 ghz. In fact, they don't list that they support higher than 1.1 Ghz. So if I don't wait for a DDR solution am I better off just purchasing a 1.1 ghz?
I'm almost done buying my other system components. The last will be CPU/Memory/MB. The reason was that I wanted to give plenty of time for the PC2100 DDR memory to come out and for motherboards to support it. You can order some memory from Micron I think already but I don't know if they're shipping. And of course the 1.2 Ghz CPU. I was waiting on the Asus A7M66 but I haven't seen those for sale yet.
Then I read some things that said the new DDR memory wasn't giving the performance boost people were expecting so it may not be worth the wait.
My Question is this: If I decide NOT to wait for all that and go with PC133 (Or higher if I find any) and a 1.2 Ghz Athlon is it worth it? I see most motherboards non DDR are not using the full power of the 1.2 ghz. In fact, they don't list that they support higher than 1.1 Ghz. So if I don't wait for a DDR solution am I better off just purchasing a 1.1 ghz?