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I'm also looking to get a new machine, but I can't find a decent motherboard either. I want to get the Athlon XP 1600, but I don't know which board to get..
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I believe IWill is coming out with a new board that accepts DDR333 RAM (which is basically PC166 DDR) which should be blazing fast.

Might want to see if you can find some reviews on it and check it out.

Here's a link to the PR - http://www.iwillusa.com/whats_new/SeeMore.asp?ID=93

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the P4 mobos say they've got a 400mhz fsb.
shouldn't that be much faster?
I'm probably confused on some point.
And what sort of RAM would you use with that anyway?
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Originally posted by miNus:
I believe IWill is coming out with a new board that accepts DDR333 RAM (which is basically PC166 DDR) which should be blazing fast.

I wasn't aware that there was an Althon cpu that had a DDR333 mhz bus. Thats a pretty nice overclock if the chipset will take it though. But i have my doubts.

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the P4 mobos say they've got a 400mhz fsb.
shouldn't that be much faster?
I'm probably confused on some point.
And what sort of RAM would you use with that anyway?

Yes the P4 FSB is 'quad-pumped' to 400 mhz. But it doesn't use regular DDR (or QDR for that matter) SDRAM. It uses RAMBUS memory. A much higher latency beast, and the bus width is not nearly as wide. So 400mhz SDRAM would murder 400mhz RDRAM

So once again, we see that clock speed alone does not win the race.


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i'm about to get a new comp. and i was wondering, is there any mobo that can use the pc2400 or pc2700 ddr ram? all i can find are ones saying pc2100. damnit. maybe oc the bus?

what kind of mobo's do you recomend. i'm thinkin about the asus A7M266 and a athlon xp cpu. geforce3 Ti 200.

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Yeah um first of all, that quote about the P4, that wasn't me...

Second of all, I misunderstood what you said about the board, so I retract my statement because I'm a dumbass. There isn't an AMD chip (or Intel for that matter) that runs at a 166FSB DDR (afaik, of course).

This message has been edited by miNus on November 14, 2001 at 09:57 AM

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tonydennis: i would suggest you give the asus A7M266 a look. that would be my choice if i wasn't lookin to use the faster ddr ram that is around. although it my have problems with ati video cards (its that one or the A7A266, whichever uses the ali chipset, too lazy to go look)

i don't want at P4, i don't like intel plus i'm a broke ass. i don't have intel money to spend.

i was thinkin about waiting till usb2.0 was out and get a mobo with it, but i dont really use usb so i don't need to wait another 3-4 months.

what aobut something with raid, although i don't quite understand what it is , kinda sorta do but not really

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How about waiting just a bit for the nForce? Supposed to be a good step up from KT266A, even. Or you can get a KT266A...

But you already bought one... I see. I just don't understand why you would recommend a board that you are having problems with. Given, you're having problems with an ATI card so it's most likely it's fault.

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what aobut something with raid, although i don't quite understand what it is , kinda sorta do but not really

Raid: Redundant Array of independant/Inexpensive Disks You can have say 5 ide harddrives that are each 20 gigs and the machine sees it as 1 drive of 100 gigs. That of course is raid level 0 which has no parity. Depending on the importance of data you can have 3 or 5 levels of redudancy.

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