PC2100 RAM, what kind of motherboard is needed?

[Guest]

I recently bought a 256 PC2100 RAM stick for real cheap, however i don't know what kind of motherboard and processor are compatible for this type of RAM. Can anyone help me out?

 

[jc14all]

Basically, the AMD Athlon is the CPU, and there are a nice selection of M/B that use the DDR SDR that you have. You can go to the AMD web site and check there recommended M/B for the Athlon Tunderbird.

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[agpport]

There are also intel-processor based motherboards that support DDR SDRAM. For example Asus CUV266. But intel CPU:s wont make much use of the extra bandwidth of the DDR RAM, and the same is true for AMD Duron CPU:s.


Check out http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010430/index.html for intel DDR mobos and http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010808/index.html & http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010806/index.html for AMD DDR mobos


Most people would say that Athlon is the way to go for DDR, and in a couple of months maybe the new socket 478 (Brookdale) Pentium 4.

However you shouldn´t base a new system on a single DIMM that you happen to own. Especially if it is some cheap and maybe not even good DIMM, quality RAM is crucial (haha) in building a stable high performing system.

From what I´ve heard the EPOX DDR athlon motherboards are good (8K7A w/ AMD chipset, 8KHA w/ VIA chipset).

I´d recommend ASUS A7V266 if you want a nice, stable Athlon DDR mobo, I´ve got it myself and it´s running just fine with cheap TwinMos DDR SDRAM. If you have a month or so you can probably get it with a new faster memory-controller. Seems hard to get it in th US though.

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