- Mar 5, 2005
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So I'm the hardware guru, at least to everyone who knows me. Lately everyone is asking me to pick out various hardware upgrades for them, and all the perusing on Newegg is drivin' me nuts for an upgrade myself.
I'm looking at upgrading to an AM2 based board with an AMD X2 5200+ processor. What I'm hung up on, other than the fact that I don't need to spend the freakin' money, is what kind of performance increase DDR2 800 offers over DDR 400. I understand that timings and latency comes into play, but overall what's the boost, if any? The reason I ask is that I'm going to try to keep the cost down as much as possible and will only be using a gb of RAM to start off with. I'll slap some more in later on down the road.
Also, is there any software that will allow you to ban yourself from computer hardware sites like Newegg??
Cheers :beer:,
-Jason
I'm looking at upgrading to an AM2 based board with an AMD X2 5200+ processor. What I'm hung up on, other than the fact that I don't need to spend the freakin' money, is what kind of performance increase DDR2 800 offers over DDR 400. I understand that timings and latency comes into play, but overall what's the boost, if any? The reason I ask is that I'm going to try to keep the cost down as much as possible and will only be using a gb of RAM to start off with. I'll slap some more in later on down the road.
Also, is there any software that will allow you to ban yourself from computer hardware sites like Newegg??
Cheers :beer:,
-Jason