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[ By choice - and partly by fate - I'm rather ignorant wrt hardware, so please have patience . Clarifications are highly appreciated]
Hi there,
I'm on the lookout for building myself a rather powerfull PC I can use for DVD movie playback/MPEG-4 encoding/home video editing _but_ at a decent cost. After reading a bit some hardw. reviews I've set my mind to an Athlon XP on a VIA KT333 chipset motherboard (presently Asus A7V333), with an ATI Radeon 8500 DV.
The only probelms so far:
- I cannot yet find (reasonably priced) PC2700 memory that runs stable at low latency (CAS 2.0).
- Most important: AFAICT there is no Athlon out there yet that supports a FSB of 333 MHz (i.e. a system clock of 166 MHz. I'm still a bit confused when ppl talk about the clock or the 'double-pumped'/DDR ability of the FSB...is it like this ?). My question to the community is if there are any news wrt to the availability of such Athlons. Again, since I'm not very intrested in harware, over-clocking is not an option: I wanna be able to shoot a PC vendor if the CPU starts cooking...
TIA,
Yup
Hi there,
I'm on the lookout for building myself a rather powerfull PC I can use for DVD movie playback/MPEG-4 encoding/home video editing _but_ at a decent cost. After reading a bit some hardw. reviews I've set my mind to an Athlon XP on a VIA KT333 chipset motherboard (presently Asus A7V333), with an ATI Radeon 8500 DV.
The only probelms so far:
- I cannot yet find (reasonably priced) PC2700 memory that runs stable at low latency (CAS 2.0).
- Most important: AFAICT there is no Athlon out there yet that supports a FSB of 333 MHz (i.e. a system clock of 166 MHz. I'm still a bit confused when ppl talk about the clock or the 'double-pumped'/DDR ability of the FSB...is it like this ?). My question to the community is if there are any news wrt to the availability of such Athlons. Again, since I'm not very intrested in harware, over-clocking is not an option: I wanna be able to shoot a PC vendor if the CPU starts cooking...
TIA,
Yup