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Memory Options 800FSB system

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Rachet

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My son is going to build a new system when he gets back from school based on the new intel 875 or 865 chipset. He is a gamer so he wants a fast system.

Money is tight so he may go with a 2.4 PIV that runs @ 533FSB and wait until next year to get a 800FSB processor

The issue is memory - he has heard that if he buys 400DDR the system may actually run slower than if he bought 333DDR because he is actually underclocking the memory.

Anyone know the real story on how the performance would compare based on the two memory options?

thanks for your help

 
if he sets up the system to run 1:1 cpu:mem ratio it means that CPU freq 200Mhz (800FSB) will have memory ran at 400 mhz. If he buys a 333 ram he better make sure its a good one so he can overclock it to 400.
 
Money is tight so he may go with a 2.4 PIV that runs @ 533FSB and wait until next year to get a 800FSB processor

That doesn't matter, when the 800mhz chips come out, they'll be the same price as the 533.
 
I agree, with Jadow. I don't remember if Intel is indeed releasing a 2.4 GHz at 800 MHz fsb, but if they are, it will be approx the same price as the 2.4 533 chips were last week. There have been major price cuts in the 533 processors this week (well at least the 3.06 GHz) so that Intel could sell the new 800 fsb chips for the same (or very near same) price as the chips were on the 533 bus. Even if you do get a 533 chip, I would highly recommend getting ram that is speced to run at 400 MHz, even if you don't use it immediatly. Ram is a decent investment which doesn't get outdated as quickly as the rest of the computer parts do. You can expect to be using DDR400 for at least a year maybe even 2 years without seeing any major changes (maybe DDR2 will eventually come out, but Intel isn't supporting that on a motherboard until mid to late 2004, and even then, they would need to boost their fsb to take advantage of it).
 
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