P4D 945 or a Duo E6300 only running 800mhz ram?

Get the E6300, any P4 thats not free is a ripoff.

Since your getting onboard gfx i think that a good 400w psu would be more then enough. Might want to invest in a better one though, that way when you buy a new graphics card you wont have to get a new psu as well.

get E6300

He beat me to it. The E6300's 1066MHz bus only uses 533MHz RAM (which is technically 1066 with the double data rate). If you're getting 800MHz RAM, that's plenty of overclocking headroom, but don't go cheap on it. You're better off getting decent 667MHz RAM that will still enable a good boost in speed.. 667MHz RAM will allow the BIOS bus speed to be set up to 333MHz (from the stock 266MHz) at a minimum. Good DDR2-667 RAM will go higher. At 333MHz BIOS bus speed, your E6300 will be at 2.33GHz.. but with a decent motherboard, 2.5GHz should be possible on the DDR2-667 memory.. getting close to E6700 speed..

Yeah but a cheap mobo won't hit 500 FSB.

Kurt, a 945 will $hit itself if you put a 6300 near it Hands down, no question, get the 6300.

If you can get cheaper 533 or 667 RAM @ 1 gig, do that. Then add more later. You won't be disappointed, the C2D will chew through the 945 and still have some left over to take on what's left of any 805 that people are thinking of buying

Ok a bit confused, but think I have the just of it.

So can someone confirm that these will be ok for the E6300 and will also allow me to overclock it in the future?

Asus P5VD2-MX S775 P4M890 MATX VGA Sound LAN FSB1066 motherboard, this is a pretty cheap one but also has onboard graphics which I NEED at the moment, so sounds good to me, is it adequate?

And Corsair Value Select 1024Mb (2x512mB) Kit 667MHz 240Pin 1GB DDR2 RAM DIMM 1.8V?

And what would happen if I can't afford 1gig? would i be better of getting 1 512 800mhz or would you still recommend a 667MHz?

And many thanks for all the people that have already replied

Kurt

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Ok think that motherboard is no good because the memory wont run fast enough, can someone possibly check this site out and choose me the cheapest motherboard that will be good enough for the job? It has to be cheap though.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech [...] 0m0&page=1

I don't see why the memory won't run at full. that is more dependent on the ram itself

just do yourself a favor and gets some ocz platinum, for the price, it will do what you want

All I can say is go through what ever means possible to get a good mobo

I have an am2 2ghz cpu running at almost 3ghz, which is a major oc for am2 because I have a good mobo

The gigabte DS3 mobo is a quite good one for the price
Stick with ocz for ram, it'll do that job and its generally the cheapest with a heatspreader

I agree on the E6300. But non-sense on the psu. 400W psu can run literally any video card you throw at it. Hell you dont even need a PCI-e 6 pin to run the latest. I was using my 7800 GTX OC the other day without the 6 pin and it was working absolutely fine and normal, PLAYING video games, and this was on a 400 watt, 15A, with only 1, 12V rail, on a duo core 6400.

Hilarious how these companies talk about upgrading your PSU to a more expensive one, and for what??? Its a scam.. Ya buy the better quality psu for sure, but you dont need anything mega spectacular, unless you plan to run SLI/crossfire configuration.

The 945 retails for about 190$ Cad. last time I checked. Compared to the E6300 which is about 220 right now I beleive. But the difference in performance is outstanding. Shell out the cash and go for the 6300.

If you want to do a comparison compare the 6400's with the top of the line Pentium D chips, the 6400 still comes out on top.

The pc 6400 ram costs alot. You can pc5400 for less, and the difference is not that great. ALSO, there is amuch greater benefit in using Dual channel, slower clocked ram, then using single channel faster ram.

[quote=]The pc 6400 ram costs alot. You can pc5400 for less, and the difference is not that great. ALSO, there is amuch greater benefit in using Dual channel, slower clocked ram, then using single channel faster ram.[/quote]

Problem there is it would fill up the only 2 memory slots the cheap boards have buying two 512mbs and I would then have to chuck them out in the future to put more in.