I'm in the process ot building a new PC. I wanted to go ahead and create a DDR based system with a 1.2 Tbird and the FSB being overclocked to 150. I only want the FSB overclocked becuase everything seems to point to the memory bandwidth causing the slow down in PCs today not the CPU. I wanted to know what the most stable board is out there for this sort of setup. (Currently I do mostly applications, I have lots of windows open at once and alot running in the background including compilers)
I have some questions first off which I need to ask as well.
1)I noticed in all the benchmarks I've seen that DDR does not beat SDRAM by much. Is it worth it to buy a DDR based system, will it be getting better performance as time goes on? Is it better just to stick with some quality SDRAM and wait for the next thing to come around or if they can make better use of DDR?
2)Out of all the benchmarks I've been looking at, I don't recollect seeing any with the FSB on a DDR based system overclocked. Is this practice not recommended?
3)I noticed that the boards for the KT133 and the DDR based chipsets seem not too be very stable. Is now not a good time to purchase a stable motherboard(stable being a board that everyone agrees is stable not just a decent portion of people)? This in turn tides into my initial question of which board is the most stable for what I need? (or should I go with a Pentium instead?)
On another side note I heard that stable Chipsets will be coming out this Summer, is it going to be worth the wait?
I do mainly applications right now so I was thinking about going ahead with a KT133a board but figured I might as well
I have some questions first off which I need to ask as well.
1)I noticed in all the benchmarks I've seen that DDR does not beat SDRAM by much. Is it worth it to buy a DDR based system, will it be getting better performance as time goes on? Is it better just to stick with some quality SDRAM and wait for the next thing to come around or if they can make better use of DDR?
2)Out of all the benchmarks I've been looking at, I don't recollect seeing any with the FSB on a DDR based system overclocked. Is this practice not recommended?
3)I noticed that the boards for the KT133 and the DDR based chipsets seem not too be very stable. Is now not a good time to purchase a stable motherboard(stable being a board that everyone agrees is stable not just a decent portion of people)? This in turn tides into my initial question of which board is the most stable for what I need? (or should I go with a Pentium instead?)
On another side note I heard that stable Chipsets will be coming out this Summer, is it going to be worth the wait?
I do mainly applications right now so I was thinking about going ahead with a KT133a board but figured I might as well
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