I bought the better ram and mobo bc I felt it offered a better upgrade path. My questions now stem along the lines of have I thrown my system into an asynchronous mode? I was looking for good pc2700 performance basically from the ram/cpu combination.
I'm also unsure what mhz to set ram at.. 266 or 333.
I'm not new to building computers, but I have also never really tried to tweak my ram settings in bios. Any thoughts/advice would be helpful.
If you are using a 2.4Ghz, 533Mhz FSB P4 on a Canterwood mobo, you´ll be clocking your memory at 266, not 333 (that´s the synchronous setup)... it´s a pity you haven´t waited for the 2.4C, with 800Mhz FSB though... But you can always upgrade later, of course. That motherboard is excellent!!!
Oh I just had crash problems and incompatibilities with P4S8X, P4G8X and A7N8X. Strangely enough I seem to be the only one with so many bad experiences with ASUS lately...ranging back 6 months or so. I believe ASUS is throwing out boards before they're finished...no wonder they're always the first out with new boards But again, is it just me?
My system: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU / TwinMOS 1Gb DDR400 / Soltek 75FRN-RL /
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro / Antec True Power 550W / Maxtor 80Gb ATA-133 / Hercules GTXP SC /
Samsung DVD / Lite-On CDRW
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