Hey, all. I am new here, but a faithful review reader on the main site. I have had such bad run ins with watercooling in the past, I killed a soyo kt400 dragon ultra platinum and have been screwed with thermaltake (never buy anything from them, their stuff is cheap garbage) and soyo. It was the worst RMA experience ever. Well, as I am about to embark on my journey to college in 2004, I know that I will need alot more power than a lousy p4 or athlon to be a computer animation major. I have chosen to go with opteron 244's or 246's on an msi k8t master2 far board. However, the concept of using noisy fans is still terribly unappealing and innefficient to me (this is why I initially got into watercooling and will never touch it again). I want to go peltier (thermoelectric cooling module) for these new opterons that I will get in the next few months. I don't see any peltier setups for an opteron, are there any available? My real question is, what is the best performance memory I can use for the motherboard (k8t master 2 far)? I know the opterons need registered and ECC DIMMS, but who makes a good ddr 333 (or should I go higher, even though the board does not reccomend it) with very stable timings that a highschool kid with very little income can afford? I will need at least a gb if not more. Will the speed of the opterons be bottlenecked by the frequency of the RAM? opterons technically have no fsb, so I am confused as to their limits in terms of usage with various speed DIMMS. Usually, I would match the fsb or a number divisible by the fsb to the memory, but what should I do here? I wanted clarification as to what sort of ramifications could occur from using higher than reccomended ram, when in regular systems it usually inhibits both system stability and memory performance.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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