GA-7N400 Pro and mushkin limitations?

[BadNewsBears]

Future setup

amd 3000xp+ 400fsb
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro
Mushkin pc2700 High Perf (old syle with green and purple heat spreaders)

Should I get better memory?

 

[BadNewsBears]

UP

 

[wicktron]

You should, but the Mushkin might, and will probably do the job for you.

 

[BadNewsBears]

Do you think it is a performance limiter? ANd how much of a gain would I get at 1 gig of pc3200?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Buy a 2500+ as it will max around the same top overclock as the 3000+ and that way you can put the extra $ into better ram.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Munchies
Do you think it is a performance limiter? ANd how much of a gain would I get at 1 gig of pc3200?

Well, there's no guarantee the 2700 will hit 200fsb, it should but ya never know, and if you get the 400fsb CPU you'd have to downclock the CPU's FSB or suffer the asynch performance penalty because the ram bonked. The 3200 is a safer bet that's all, meanwhile everything I've seen shows the 2500+ and 3000+ are basically twins with the same potential.

 

[BadNewsBears]

Im just looking for the 400fsb. So you think id be looking at close to the same performance between the 2500+ and the 3000+400fsb?

 

[wicktron]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Buy a 2500+ as it will max around the same top overclock as the 3000+ and that way you can put the extra $ into better ram.

I say save money on both. Get a 2500+, keep the RAM, overclock via multipliers and keep the PC2700 so that you can run at 166MHz FSB.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: wixt0r

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Buy a 2500+ as it will max around the same top overclock as the 3000+ and that way you can put the extra $ into better ram.

I say save money on both. Get a 2500+, keep the RAM, overclock via multipliers and keep the PC2700 so that you can run at 166MHz FSB.

That's a good point, the performance difference isn't that great so it is a good inexpensive out.

 

[Insane3D]

Have you considered the Epox 8RDA+ or the Abit NF7-S? Both boards are better choices IMO.

 

[BadNewsBears]

I have read some negative stuff about the Abit, and nothing but goodness about the Gigabyte.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Munchies
I have read some negative stuff about the Abit, and nothing but goodness about the Gigabyte.

That's largely due to the small number of Gigabytes being used compared to the Abit When you have a 1000 times more boards out there of course there is going to be more reports of issues and many of those complaints haven't been from owners of the NF7-S rev 2 either.

 

[BadNewsBears]

I wont be doing any over clocking. Atleast i dont think. I just want SATA suppport , IDE raid (sata raid is good too!) and 400fsb capable