P4 2.26 GHz and PC1066 Rambus vs XP 2200+ ???

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Hi,

I was planning on building an XP 2200+ with a Gigabyte 7VRXP motherboard. Now that Intel has cut prices to around $250 for the P4 2.26GHz, I am considering getting the Intel 850E with PC1066 Rambus memory. Does anyone know where the PC1066 memory is available? Will the Intel motherboard run the memory (unofficially) at 1066??

Now, what is everyone's opinion as to which system to build?? As far as I can tell, the price difference will be minimal (probably less than $100). At any rate, DDR 333 RAM which can run as CAS2 appears to be around $100 for 256MB.

Thanks,

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[TheLizardMan]

the 2200+ will beat it unless you overclock the northwood.

 

[christoph83]

the 2200+ will beat it unless you overclock the northwood.

link? These two will more than likely be a lot closer than you think. Tom's hardware review shows the 2.2ghz northwood and 2100+ XP very, very close to eachother. Add 60mhz or so each processor and add PC1066 to tom's PC800 scores with the 2.2ghz and the P4 will probably edge out the 2200 + XP, although not by much.

 

[SteelCityFan]

Newegg and Googlegear both sell PC1066 by Kingston.

I agree with Christoph83, the 2.26 with PC1066 would be the faster setup.

 

[Rand]

Some of us put precious little faith in how representative Tom's current set of benchmarks is for real world performance. As much as I respect Tom Pabst, he's gravitated towards a very poor choice in benchmarks of late.

As for which is faster... well, I'm not going to offer an opinion as I've no idea what sort of applications you'll be running.

 

[RazeOrc]

Just remember that if you pick up PC1066 and you use a 2.2 you won't be running a processor "offically" capable of 533MHz FSB. All of the benches I've seen show an improvement with PC1066 and the newer P4s with 533MHz FSB support over any comperable AMD XP solution. Unfortunatley current motherboards DO NOT SUPPORT 533MHz FSB as a standard feature, although the new Asus P4T533-C supposedly does if you can find it...Otherwise just OC the FSB up to 133 if the processor can handle it and you'll be maximizing ur ram, hell maybe you can get it up to PC1200 speeds now that would be cool, 5+GB mem bandwidth