Posted: 12/30/2004 12:57:28 PM EDT
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Putting together a desktop machine after burning out two laptops in two years. It's an Athlon64 machine, using a chaintech vnf-250 motherboard. Cash is short, especially as I've got to buy books for the spring semester, so I'd planned on borrowing a stick of PC2700(333mhz) ram until things cleared up and I could get stick of RAM for this machine. Just after buying all the parts, I realized that the athlon64 has a front-side bus(FSB) of 400mhz (d0h!), even though the board manufacturer claims to support 333 and 266 mhz ram. Now, the thing is, the only processors the board supports (socket 754) all have a 400mhz FSB. So what'll happen if i plug the 333mhz ram into this board? Will it run the memory and processor at different timings? or try to run them at the same timing? Can I underclock the processor to 333mhz until i get a faster stick of RAM? |
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awesome, thx. Looks like i'll be set for a while. Hadn't heard of Arock, nor seen it anywhere(the board, not the guy). The Chaintech was just a solid and cheaper mobo. The ASUS nforce3 board didn't get good reviews and used a third-party SATA controller instead of the built-in nvidia one. In any case, it's all paid for and Fedex man will supposedly deliver them next week, so it's set. Layout, if you're curious Athlon64 2800+ (will run 32-bit linux on it, don't want to deal with hassles of finding 64-bit drivers and shit) Chaintech VNF-250 motherboard Hitachi 80gb SATA drive (7200rpm, 8mb cache) 256mb PC2700 DDR ram (will get a 512 stick next month) MX4000 vid card (cheapo card just for the DVI output - not a heavy gamer). |