P4 c with Pc2700?

[Johnbear007]

I was thinking about getting a P4 2.4C but I have pc2700 (crucial)

I have a stick of 512 pc2700. One stick, so does that mean that it would run super slow because I only have one stick and it is pc2700?

 

[Corporate Thug]

you can just use a divider to ruin it ie 6:5

it wont be as fast as if u had pc3200 but close enough

 

[Johnbear007]

how much performance would I lose?

 

[Technonut]

I read your other post... Personally, I would not bother with the 2.4C unless I had a decent 800MHz FSB mobo and 2 sticks of RAM to run in dual channel. AFAIK, the Crucial PC2700 is not great OC'ing RAM either, so you would want 2 sticks of RAM good enough to reach your target OC..

Just my opinion of course....

EDIT: For your reading pleasure....

Dual-channel DDR comes to the P4

865PE & 875P Memory Guide

Searching for the Memory Holy Grail: Part 1

Searching for the Memory Holy Grail - Part 2

 

[JBT]

my PC2700 ram from crucial does 200 mhz easy..........

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: shady06
you can just use a divider to ruin it ie 6:5

it wont be as fast as if u had pc3200 but close enough

I think you meant 5:4 or 3:2 since there is no 6:5

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Technonut
I read your other post... Personally, I would not bother with the 2.4C unless I had a decent 800MHz FSB mobo and 2 sticks of RAM to run in dual channel. AFAIK, the Crucial PC2700 is not great OC'ing RAM either, so you would want 2 sticks of RAM good enough to reach your target OC..

Just my opinion of course....

EDIT: For your reading pleasure....

Dual-channel DDR comes to the P4

865PE & 875P Memory Guide

Searching for the Memory Holy Grail: Part 1

Searching for the Memory Holy Grail - Part 2

Hmm thanks a bunch. Ill take a look at all of that.

 

[Johnbear007]

So why is there so much contention between people about this memory issue? One person says that it wont hurt performance, the next says dont even think abou it.

 

[orion7144]

Because some people swear that running memory in async is will hurt the performace. Yes it does hurt performace quite a bit when you are talking about the MB's that run the AMD chips but, with the 865/875 the performace is not degraded as much. Sure you are going to loose a little memory bandwidth but the "overall" system will be faster since you can run a higher FSB.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: orion7144
Because some people swear that running memory in async is will hurt the performace. Yes it does hurt performace quite a bit when you are talking about the MB's that run the AMD chips but, with the 865/875 the performace is not degraded as much. Sure you are going to loose a little memory bandwidth but the "overall" system will be faster since you can run a higher FSB.

So, what is the best option for someone like me then? P4 or Athlon? Is there any NON dual channel soluction out there, or is dual channel with async still faster than non dual channel. What ifI only chose to use 1 stick of 512?