i plan on purchasing an am2 processor and mobo after i see what becomes of the price after conroe. I have found some corsair DDR2 800 ram and i had heard that AM2 will use it. so if i got this ram with the processor will it work?
Yes it should, albeit only slower and more costlier than if you had better sources of information and obtained a Conroe system...
I really hope Intel is paying you, you're getting ridiculous. Let the guy buy what he wants. If eh wanted a Core 2 sales pitch he would have posted that.
i plan on purchasing an am2 processor and mobo after i see what becomes of the price after conroe. I have found some corsair DDR2 800 ram and i had heard that AM2 will use it. so if i got this ram with the processor will it work?
Yes, but for perfomance sake, lets hope it's low latency. Picking the right RAM for AM2 is as important, if not more so, than picking the right motherboard. If you get DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-12, or tighter(if you're lucky), then you will be glad you picked AM2 over s939. GL
Amybe you've been takign too much of your nickname. I am a published Development author. I will be posting my next article soon.
That means there is no contest. The point was that the guy didn't ask him if Core 2 was faster he asked if DDR2 800 will work with AM2. he has obviously decided.
A better way would have been to simply say,
"Yes, and the Core 2 which is a lot faster does also." Or "Yes, it does, but make sure you get CAS4."
Either of those sounds better than, basically,
"What are you an idiot. Look for Core 2 info."
so the problem wasn't you promoting Intel, that's fine the problem is people will buy what they want and you insulting them only shows your need to live off of Intel's fame.
Plus, I don't remember this kind of vitriol when people were comparing X2 and PD.
Jsut because X2 was faster didn't mean that people couldn't deicde on P4.
Yes it should, albeit only slower and more costlier than if you had better sources of information and obtained a Conroe system...
That sounds like a putdown to me. You made the assupmtion that he didn't look at Core 2 and is wasting his money.
If someone wanted a PresHott I would tell them the benfits and disadvantages of it and let them decide if they want it. I woud try not to compare to core 2 or X2 since the individual can bu what they want.
Well if he did examine the alternatives, and still chooses AMD (he indicates purchase in a month or so), then either he does not understand or believe them, or heck,,, maybe he is an idiot after all as you claim...
Well if he did examine the alternatives, and still chooses AMD (he indicates purchase in a month or so), then either he does not understand or believe them, or heck,,, maybe he is an idiot after all as you claim...
So the PresHott buyers were much smarter? they didn't choose what was mowing Intel down.
I can't say its untrue, but I haven't heard that before. Also, my cpu operated at 2.2 ghz before overclocking and my ram wasn't underclocked by any means.
Well if he did examine the alternatives, and still chooses AMD (he indicates purchase in a month or so), then either he does not understand or believe them, or heck,,, maybe he is an idiot after all as you claim...
So, according to you, if a person wants an AMD chip he's either stupid or an idiot. Whatever happened to the freedom of buying a product you like just because you like it? A smart person, with well thought out ideas, might choose a chip for reasons of his own that don't make sense to you, but make perfect sense to him. Furthermore, it doesn't have to make sense to you. It only has to make sense to him.
Just take care that the CPU's operating frequency is divisible by 400 MHz. If you don't (say you get a 2.2GHz) then it will underclock your ram.
Is that true? So, the 2.2GHz cpu I'm planning to get will not make full use of DDR2 800?
Go look at the tom's benchmarks, the 2.2GHz version was running the DDR2 at 733MHz instead of its native 800. It has something to do with the memory divider. Now that doesn't mean that you couldn't overclock the chip by 200MHz and get it realigned, although I can't say for sure how well that will work. It might be worth a shot.
I just built an AM2 system but was totally confused about what type of memory to buy. I kept reading people were having problems with OCZ and some with Corsair. I would keep looking at the website of the specific motherboard manufacturer you want to use and see if they support the memory you want to buy.
On a side note. I decided to pair the single core 3800+ and MSI K9N Platinum with a 1X 1024 of Patriot DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12) and have not had any problems what so ever. The system reads it properly. I'm no wiz at OCing but I even OCed it a little to 2.6 and the system runs smoothly with a 7900gt and 2x raptors in Raid 0.
Ok, somewhere in the mix of things I lost track of who said idiot first. Sorry if I implicated the wrong person. I still leave it to individual choice as to which cpu to buy. I run multiple machines, one with an Intel chip, two with AMD. I buy as to what I think will do best for what I want it to do, and leave others to make that same choice. I don't pretend to guess their reasoning, nor do I expect others to guess at mine.
Idiot was not my choice of wording if you re-read posts... certainly you understand I was sarcasticaly commenting to a specific poster...