Please Help Me

[Jgilland]

I am about to purchase a lot of new components for my system. I currently have a Celeron 633 MHz, Generic Mobo, 320 MB SDRam, and a 300W Generic PSU. I want to buy a 1.3 GHz Athlon (266 FSB). First, will I need a new power supply? Second, should I buy DDRRam, or will my 320 MB of SDRam be sufficient? Please help me! Thanks!

Joseph Karr Gilland
<A HREF="http://www.josephgilland.com" target="_new"> Joseph Gilland Inc. </A>

 

[o1die]

Your power supply may be adequate if you don't overclock. You will just have to try it and see. You may want to get the ECS K7S5a motherboard ($57 newegg), since it uses either sdram or ddram. You won't notice that much difference in performance by using sdram instead of ddram. Your 320 megs of sdram is adequate.

 

[Thanatos00]

I would suggest skipping the 1.3 and going straight to an XP and a motherboard with DDR support. The price will be the same or sligtly more expensive, but its worth it. The PSU "should" be sufficient, but if you want a really good power supply, Enermax makes the best on the market. <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=faq&notfound=1&code=1" target="_new">Here</A> is a link to a PSU review from one of our own here in THG. If you are looking to save money then you could get a board that supports SDRAM, but then you will be missing out on quite a bit. You wont have the upgradability that you get if you get a DDR mobo with XP support. To give you an example, my brother just ordered a MSI K7T266 Pro, XP1600 and 256MB Micron PC2100 CL2.5 and it was about $320.

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[Jgilland]

OK, Thanks for the DAMN QUICK replies. I'm going for affordability, so I think I'm going to go with the 1.3 Athlon w/ a mobo that does SD and DDR RAM. I asked about the PSU because I didn't know if the Athlon required "special psu connectors" like the P4????

Edit: Also, if I get a mobo w/ 2 SD DIMMS, and 2 DDR DIMMS, and I use one stick of 256 MB DDR RAM, do I have to have one of those filler things for the empty DDR DIMM?

Joseph Karr Gilland
<A HREF="http://www.josephgilland.com" target="_new"> Joseph Gilland Inc. </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Jgilland on 11/17/01 02:38 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[AMD_Man]

No!

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[Matisaro]

Nope, one of the many benifits of ddr over rambus.

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