Ok, work was throwing out some dead hardware and I scored a couple of Xeon 5160 CPUs I also managed to get a heap (12G) of DDR2 ECC/reg pc3200(400Mhz) RAM
Now, I'd like to whip up a nice little server for coloing and all I need is a MB and coolers. The problem is, all the MBs I can find on Ebay are 533/667 Mhz DDR2 RAM only. I thought it was a chipset thing and I was screwed (only a few 771 chipsets out there and all by intel) but I was roaming about tyan's site in the memory config database and they had a couple of MB that they'd tested some 400mhz RAM on (i5100x, s5375) (intel 5100 chipset)
Now, the question is, will any 771 MB take the 400Mhz RAM and just go a bit slower? Or should I look for any 5100 chipset board? Or, is this a total crapshoot?
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