AMD with SDRam MB

There is only one mobo that even comes close that uses SD-Ram... It's from ECS... but I think it only supports up to 2100+...

Think you may have to bite the bullet on this one...



To err is human... to really screw things up you need a computer!

Buying a system with SDRAM and a 333MHz CPU is a total waste of time.

If you can't afford to buy DDR with your new system, WAIT.

Don't waste your money on throw away components like SDRAM, the SDRAM based motherboard or anything else that would never be usable again in the future.

If you are editing video, you'll want to totally avoid the sound blaster cards as they do not parse at the published specifications using Digital Outputs. Nor will almost all of the onboard solutions from C-Media or anyone else for that matter. Instead, you'll want to go with probably an M-Audio solution (about the same price as a Creative Labs solution) but which actually works correctly at the 24/96 specifications versus the sound blaster which SAYS it does, but actually does not.

Finally, if you are going to do video work, you're going to want to dump that GeForce 2 card which has lousy S-Video (doesn't meet it's own published specifications, nevermind the industry standards) in favor of an ATI video card with much faster processing and much better S-Video, nevermind having faster rates and considerably higher resolutions. If you are converting video jobs, you'll notice A HUGE difference not only in shorter processing time with the ATI, but also in the overall quality. No flickers, No audio alignment problems, no frequency synch problems. All of these issues affect all of the Nvidia cards and every Creative Labs solution.

Again, I would say wait for:
1) RAM Pricing to come down to your price point.
2) Barton Pricing to come down to your price point.
3) A motherboard w/o Sound
4) Pricing on the ATI Video cards to drop once the 9800's are out in volume.

This will enable you to get a system designed for what you want to do, while not costing you an arm and a leg. 2 months on the outside should be more than enough time for you to save a couple of hundred dollars up to fill in the blanks, while pricing on the combined parts will have dropped a couple of hundred dollars.

Steph Benoit

Stable Technologies
'The way IT should be!'

I wouldn't recommend using XP2600+ with SDRAM as it would perform poorly. You should buy DDR RAM instead.

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