case fan

[duncan]

ok - who's ready for a dumb ass question - can you fit a case fan anywhere you like or does there have to be special cutouts on the case.

Also with a mobo that supports 333FSB - what is the fastest AMD you can put with it (have 2200 at mo with 462 pins) and will it work with DDR400 even though it's different speed ram.

 

[diabloII]

333fsb=ddr333 unless you raise it i think

also, the fastst amd for socket 462 (sock A) is the amd xp 3200+, but imo there's no point in buying one when you can save and upgrade to socket 939

edit: oh yea, and as long as your molex connector on the fan can get power, u can put the fan anywhere

 

[duncan]

i bought a DDR400 going cheap and put the make of mobo into crucial site and the result came up with DDR400 even though the mobo is 333/266/200 i think - so I assumed that running a faster Ram would be ok - maybe it just runs at the FSB speed ?? i hope it works otherwise I've wasted money on RAM

 

[diabloII]

nope, i'm pretty sure it'll run at ddr333

btw, ddr333 costs more than ddr400 somehow

 

[duncan]

i know it won't run at 400MHz 'cos the FSB is a bottleneck, but i got the DDR400 'cos it was a steal - i justed wanted to confirm that it would actually work, as the mobo spec sais 333/266, but i was fairly sure that you can have a faster ram than fsb and that it would just run the ram at the fsb speed - problem is i don't really understand the electronics so it's all double dutch to me!!

 

[dale5605]

Case fans have 3 standard sizes, 120mm, 92mm, and 80mm. 80mm spots in your case will fit 80mm fans and so on...

 

[diabloII]

yea sure, it'll just underclock itself to ddr333 and it'll work

 

[waynejkruse10]

In the case there should be some sort of grill with holes and 4 holes for screws, thats where you put the case fan. Usually cases support 80mm or 120mm (120mm on newer enthusiast ones)