DDR333 & CPU & More

[deekemon]

First I would like to thank rcj for taking the time to respond to my questions. But, as you know, with one question answered, 3 are spawn.

DDR333, this is basically the standard of ddr memory. I have been planning on going with Kingston Hyperx 2 sticks of 256 cas2. Well, I would go higher however I recall reading the difference between say DDR333 and DDR400 isnt significant enough to justify the money. Your opinions on this? Kingston... a decent brand yes?

Hmmm, They was a comparison of all the top hsf's recently (about 2 months ago at most) tom's liked the vantec aerfolow. However I run into alot of person recommendations for the volcano 7, What do you think?

And last the question I really cant derive a straight answer from. Well a thread posted about 1 week ago got me feels a little queezy. Basically for the money the P4 2.53 killed the Barton 2500. I dont want to leave the route of AMD. FSB and cache prove important and the barton is nice for $175. However the 1700 (T-Bred B) is wildy popular and a significant $125 cheaper. 66mhz less FSB and a fraction of the cache. Well if I went this way, hell yes I would overclock. Just my question here is, is the 1700 a stable platform to do heavy sound and graphics. I really dont know how valuable more cache and fsb will prove. Oh and its either 2500 Barton or 1700 Tbred B, 2400+ proves too expensive where I can purchase a Barton and Overclock. LoL and another good thing I find about the 1700 is, $50 few months upgrade. I dunno as always dying for ur opinions

Thanks Again You Guys,

Jake

 

[FO_SHO]

As far as the HSF, go to the HSF section of this board and you'll find tons of info. (I went through 20+ pages with good info). I would recommend thermalright, thermaltak, and the vantec is a nice HSF. The reason I won't go thermalright, is cause it's a little heavier than others, and it's huge, so 1. I don't know if I'll crush the core 2. I don't know if it'll fit my mobo.

DDR333 has proved to be equal if not better than DDR400. Toms has proved this and I think it's up to you to decide. DDR400 has beaten 333 in some apps, but I think that was only a minor percentage. I plan on going PC3200 TWINX just cause. Many people on this board has not recommended me/other people about kingston, so I don't know if it's good or not. BUT people have said "buy corsair" on many occasions. It's up to you.

 

[deekemon]

Hey more questions, you can oc front side bus as well? and for overclocking DDR400 would be better... but why?

 

[FO_SHO]

you can overclock your FSB of your CPU to run in synch with your memory.

example: if you can only get your CPU freq to 190 per say, that's 380 FSB speeds.
with DDR400, you can UNDERCLOCK to run in synch @ 380 FSB
with DDR333, you would have to OVERCLOCK to run in synch @ 300 FSB

If you underclock, better chance you can get agressive mem timings as well. If you over, no telling the outcome.

 

[rcj187]

the 1700 will be more than good enough for the work you say you will be doing once it is oc.. raise the bus to 166mhz lower the multiplier to 9 ensure it runs happily and then slowly raise the multiplier until you hit stability problems then back off a notch. oc should always be done slowly and carefully to minimise the risk of damaging your cpu

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