PC2700 + 800 FSB

[GimpyFuzznut]

What effect on performance does having two sticks of 1024MB PC2700 (Kingston ValueRam) in dual channel paired with a 3.0GHZ 800FSB Prescott chip? Will my chip just be forced to run at 533MHZ FSB? Does this have a huge affect on performance?

 

[Shimmishim]

Yes, your board should force your chip mem to run at 166 mhz fsb uunless you go into the bios and overclock the fsb.

do you happen to know how old or new your value ram is? if it's really old, there's a good chance that it is rebadged winbond bh-5 modules which should overclock like mad with.

as for a hit on performance... all i know is that intel chips are mem bandwidth hungry.

 

[stevty2889]

As long as your board can run a divider, it can run the mem at 166mhz while keeping the CPU at 200mhz FSB, however P4's are very bandwidth hungry so you'll take a decent performance hit by running the slower memory. You could always try loosening the timings and seeing if the ram will run at 200mhz, there is a good chance it will.