166 fsb and 333 vs 400

[xerid]

The AMD XP 2700+ and up have a 166 FSB. However, systems have memory clocks at 400. How much of a benefit is this if it's not syncronous? Should I just be intersted in getting DDR333? What will be the future FSB clocks from AMD? How does Dual Channel come into play here?

 

[ad_rach]

you can get more out of dual (or single) channel ddr 400 than ddr 333 on an nforce 2 mobo even though it isn't synchronous.

no matter how hard you try, you can't polish a turd. :]

 

[xerid]

http://www17.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q4/021111/nforce2-01.html

TH says "All of today's chipsets support both DDR266 and DDR333. DDR400 is no longer supported by the chipset manufacturers due to the lack of performance: DDR333 at CL2 is at least equally fast or even faster. nVIDIA still supports DDR400, as there are some (few!) applications that still benefit from the higher clock speed - in defiance of overhead."

 

[Schmide]

In a parallel universe, Thread <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=faq&notfound=1&code=1" target="_new">New PC for Yule! Thoughts and comments welcome!</A>. I was commenting on similar information.

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