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Need help with Athon processors............

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C'DaleRider

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I can use some help with recommendations........I am going to build a new system based on an Athlon, and as someone whose last AMD processor was a 386DX40, I'm not totally conversant with all the AMD products. I do understand the XP, Barton and the new 64 at least superficaly. But I do not have a very good understanding of FSB's, chipsets for motherboards (my biggest defecit) or major differences between cpus and their requirements for particular mb's and memory.

If anyone can give me a very short synopsis of what is what with AMD these days, I'd be eternally grateful. I have spent a few days reading, but my background is so weak now, it's taking much too long to catch up considering I'm purchasing on Monday.

I'd be eternally grateful for any help. Thanks!!!
 
Athlon XP 2500+ up to 3000+ has a FSB of 166MHz.
Athlon XP 3200+ and Athlon64 3200+ has a FSB of 200MHz

The best AMD chipset is the Nforce2 for XPs and VIA K8T800 for Athlon64s. I personally like Asus as the manufacturer of my Motheboards.

For better performance, the CPU FSB should be in sync with the speed of your RAM.

For FSB 166, get PC2700 RAM.
For FSB 200, get PC3200 RAM.

Right now, I'd say to get 256 minimum, but 512MB recommended of whatever speed. 1GB if you are a gamer. Corsair is a very good RAM company, get XMS type Corsair RAM if gamer.

EDIT: Right, I forgot, Athlon64 doesn't have an FSB, but it supports 200MHz RAM at the highest. In this case you would have to run RAM in sync with CPU speed, but of course that isn't possible at this time.
 
I would reccomend the following setup:

Asus A7N8X (deluxe if you need firewire and the other extra features)
Athlon XP2500+ Barton
A 512mb stick of PC3200

I have the above items (2 sticks of 512mb ram) and it's amazing. Right now I'm running at 2.37ghz, which is over 3500+ if you take AMDs rating scale into account.
 
The A64, in fact the entire K8 like, do not technically have FSBs. Since the memory controller is integrated on the chip and hypertransport is used. The A64 3200 has a 1600Mhz 'fsb'
 
Another good Athlon XP motherboard is the Abit NF7 line. I'll probably be moving from an Asus A7N8X Deluxe to an Abit NF7-S next weekend (the Asus got boring after having it for a year, plus it's an early revision).
 
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