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ASUS P4PE: Is it worth it to get PC3200 RAM ???

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danielrm26

Junior Member
Greetings,

I am about to get the following motherboard:

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ASUS P4PE Motherboard for Intel P4 478 Retail w/ Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, SATA, Gigabit LAN, Firewire IEEE1394
Specifications:
Supported CPU: Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4/ Celeron up to 3GHz
Chipset: Intel 845PE
FSB: 533 / 400 MHz
RAM: 3x 184-pin DDR333 PC2700/PC2100/PC1600Max 2GB

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You can see that it supports PC2700 RAM, but I am confused as to what that means. It obviously implies that it only supports up to that, meaning that if I were to get PC3200 RAM, it would be wasted. I do not intend to overclock (I don't think), so should I skip the PC3200 RAM and just go with the PC2700 RAM, or does the extra speed help me despite the PC2700 'limit'?
 
The PC3200 will just be clocked down to PC2700 speeds, so, no, the extra speed does not help you.

If you think you'll ever overclock, though, you definately want to get quality PC3200, especially with that board, as all of the 845PE's are fantastic overclockers. Look in my signature, that's with Albatron's 845PE, and I'm going to bump it higher assuming Prime95 doesn't fail within the next few hours.
 
Ok, so here's my question then. What degree of overclocking would I need to do in order to get my system to take advantage of my soon to be 1GB of Corsair 3200 RAM? I don't want to sacrifice ANY stability - this is why I wouldn't want to overclock. However, if I were to be able to overclock to a small degree, in a very stable way, and I would be able to get all the power out of my RAM, I would consider it. The thing is, I want to be able to run this system 24/7 (not that I will, but I want to be ABLE to).

I don't want to have any thoughts of, "Maybe that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't overclocking."

How easy would it to be to accomplish this?
 
Originally posted by: danielrm26
Ok, so here's my question then. What degree of overclocking would I need to do in order to get my system to take advantage of my soon to be 1GB of Corsair 3200 RAM? I don't want to sacrifice ANY stability - this is why I wouldn't want to overclock. However, if I were to be able to overclock to a small degree, in a very stable way, and I would be able to get all the power out of my RAM, I would consider it. The thing is, I want to be able to run this system 24/7 (not that I will, but I want to be ABLE to).

I don't want to have any thoughts of, "Maybe that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't overclocking."

How easy would it to be to accomplish this?
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it depends. my computer has a 50% overclock, and it is totally stable 24/7/365. you just need to experiment, as there is no hard fast rule as to what is going to be a stable overclock on any given system.


 
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