Best Board for SDRAM

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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:39:20 GMT, "PatrickP" <dsrtinn@aol.com> wrote:

>I was able to scavenge a fair quantity of 256 MEG PC 133 SDRAM form work;
>what is the fastest ASUS board & CPU I can get that will use this RAM? P3
>or Athlon? Will be used for office apps
>

I think tusl2-c !

It is socket370 for fcpga coppermine (P3) and also fcpga2 tualatins.

Or cubx (no tualatin support).

You should absolutely go for a cpu with fsb133. They are much more
snappy than fsb100 systems.

Athlon boards for sdram are rare, and you will run into a limitation
that they only take fsb266 amd cpu. These are not so common any more,
but of course the durons 1600 and 1800 are good choices.
A7v133 rev. 1.05.

Such an AMD system will have faster harddisk access than the P3
system, but the P3 system can be less noisy (less heat and quieter
fan) and it can do silent standby, suspend to ram, - very convinient
by avoiding slow booting when one have adsl.

Good hunt on ebay !

best regards

John

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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:08:34 +0200, "JK (at mail dot dk)"
<johnknuhtsen@address.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:39:20 GMT, "PatrickP" <dsrtinn@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>I was able to scavenge a fair quantity of 256 MEG PC 133 SDRAM form work;
>>what is the fastest ASUS board & CPU I can get that will use this RAM? P3
>>or Athlon? Will be used for office apps
>>
>

There is a trade-off.

One says that a cpu faster than 1800 MHz is a vaste if one uses sdram.

It could be a good idea to collect trashed hardware.

At my job I have collected some trashed hardware. During the summer it
was two 7200 rpm 13 Gb harddisks.

I had at home a promise ata66 pci harddisk controller. I knew it could
be modified for raid to a fasttrack66 controller, by exchanging the
bios and a small hardware mod. I tested the raid0 pair and it worked.
Nearly the same performance as with a modern harddisk.

Then 2 weeks ago a 800 MHz PC (6x133 P3) was thrown out too, without
harddisk, cdrom and ram. The whole box.

I begged for some ram. Got it, and built together a very fine and fast
computer. I added a netcard, a radeon 32 Mb, and a dvd-cdrw drive. I
bought the dvd-cdrw drive for 40 $ and this was my only real cost.
It runs windows xp like a champ !

best regards

John

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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:39:20 GMT, "PatrickP" <dsrtinn@aol.com> wrote:

>I was able to scavenge a fair quantity of 256 MEG PC 133 SDRAM form work;
>what is the fastest ASUS board & CPU I can get that will use this RAM? P3
>or Athlon? Will be used for office apps

This is not a flame, but this strikes me as something like asking what
would be the best used car you could buy on which to install some old
13-inch wheels you came by for free. In other words, if you're
willing to spend some money to build a computer, why would you want to
be constrained by some obsolete RAM?
JK's approach makes sense because he got essentially the whole
computer for free.
A new 256MB stick of PC133 costs about $100 at Crucial, but you can
buy a new 256MB stick of PC2100 for literally HALF that. I wouldn't
build a computer around obsolete parts just because they were free.
That's definitely "throwing good money after bad."


>

Ron