AMD Athlon CPU And Hardware Recommendations?

[JonathanF]

I ordered the EPOX 8RDA+ Motherboard from PCRapids (Tuffshop)last Monday, and I am still waiting for it.

I would have preferred NewEgg or Multiwave, but neither had the EPOX 8RDA+ Motherboard in stock.

Should I get the following?

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ or the Athlon XP 2700+ (333 FSB).

Kingston PC 2700 CAS 2.5 DDR RAM or
Corsair PC 3500 CAS 2 XMS Extreme Memory or
Kingston Hyper-X PC 3500 CAS 2 DDR RAM.

I know that the CAS 2 Memory is faster then the CAS 2.5, but the faster Athlon CPU Chip and the Faster Memory is almost twice as expensive.

I have always liked Kingston Memory, and I heard that there have been some Hardware Compatibility Problems with the Corsair high speed Memory and the ASUS A7N8X Motherboards.

I am willing to pay extra for the faster Athlon CPU Chip and I like the 333 MHZ FSB.

Jonathan


Jonathan

 

[svol]

If you want to OC don't choose the XP2200+ but take the XP2400+ instead.
For a 333MHz FSB PC2700 RAM should be enough... unless you want to OC PC3200 or PC3500 isn't needed.

My PC eats so much money that I'm in 'desperate' need of it to buy PC3500 RAM, help Svol with his OC project!
--- PM me for information.