PC-150 Tiny BGA,is worth the upgrade?,and whats with this 200mhz FSB nonsense.

[spaceman]

Im thinking about going with some pc-150,i have a couple questions before doing this:
1.Will this work in my A7V?
2.Is it worth the upgrade from PC-133?
whats a good brand to go with?
thnx all @@

 

[Vegito]

Unless you can overclock your AMD cpus to 150mhz or high 140s.. no..
anyway, since everything is going ddr or qdr, not worth it if you already have pc133 and since amd cpu doesn't even hit over 110mhz (when o/ced) yet, you really dont have to. PC100 is great.. saves money..

 

[spaceman]

Thnx for the response,
My other question is this my board states that it supports a 200mhz FSB,but im assuming that i cant use the 200mhz ddr sdram.
And will i be able to upgrade my cpu to one of the new tbirds?Enlighten me someone cuz im getting lost in all the hoopla

 

[Dulanic]

The FSB is 100Mhz DDR which is effectively 200Mhz.... DDR FSB does not mean DDR SDRAM.... FSB and memory are semi seperate, although the FSB is used to transfer data from memory to CPU.

 

[LXi]

I beg to differ, PC150 is worth it. Think about it, if you overclock your Tbird/Duron to 110-115Mhz front side bus, and if you do +33% on RAM clock, you'll be running your RAM at as high as 146-152MHz, you'll definitely need the extra headroom on the PC150. Its only $72 a stick, absolutely worth it. It will work on your A7V, and its a very worthwhile upgrade for the KT133 motherboard.

 

[ElFenix]

200MHz is what the 100 MHz EV6 FSB of an athlon runs at. the FSB is DDR, so it can send and receive twice in an actual clock cycle. effectivly the bus is ~185 MHz, though, since DDR has some extra overhead.

i'm not too familiar with the a7v. all these athlon board names sound alike. thats the asus, right? if its a socket, you can use a t-bird, just not one of the 133MHz FSB ones. if its a slot, you may be able to find a slot t-bird, a few were made, but not many. you won't be able to use DDR SDRAM as your memory, though, the via chipset the board uses only supports regular sdram, officially at 133MHz max. pc-150 might help overclocking the bus, if your ram is the limiting factor, but its probably the chipset that is holding your bus back. put simply, pc 150 isn't going to help you any.

 

[LXi]

Have you guys considered the +33% option before saying Tbirds and Durons wont hit 150Mhz front side bus?

 

[spaceman]

the A7V is a socket a board:so what im taking from this:is essentially the 200mhz FSB is 100mhz DDR if this is the case then this helps some,ive only had this setup for a little over 2 weeks and everything is @ standard clock right now.

 

[Vegito]

But most pc133 can hit over 140 so even if u use 110fsb + 33 is 143, if u already have good 133, it may not be worth it to switch... But seriously, how many of you guys even crack 107 or 110.

 

[office boy]

You'll still want enough headroom for fst memory timings, my system runs at 105Mhz, 140Mhz memory, and 2,2,2 mem timings.

 

[LXi]

forcesho:

Its not +33Mhz, its +33%. 110MHz+33% gives you 146MHz. Why settle for PC133 when you can get guarranteed 150MHz at such a low price?