Hey all,
Brand new to this site but have been working with computers quite some time. I have something that has me unsure of what route to take.. could use some help if anyone can answer or help clarify. THANKS!
Buying a new PC in September. Was going to buy the following:
AMD 64 4000+ Socket 939 Processor
ASUS A8N SLI or A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard
3Gig 400 MHz DDR Ram
PCI Express 256MB Nvidia (GeForce) Vid Card (exact model undecided yet)
250 or 500 Gig SATA 300 Hard Drive(s)
- Basically a blazing fast PC. But here is where I started to wonder....
memory at 400MHz. There is some DDR2 Ram out there as high as 800MHz but the boards that support that only seem to be for the P4 chips and P4's seem to go as high as 3.6-3.8Ghz (MUCH more $$ than AMD 4000+) and FSB is 800MHz vs AMD 2000Mhz.
I am starting to wonder if maybe the slightly slower chip and front speed bus (P4) would actually outperform the AMD because you can have the RAM accessed at double the speed.
What I am getting at is would my screaming AMD system get bottle necked so much because of the much slower 400MHz Ram that the P4 system with 800MHz ram would out scream it so to speak?
Any insights on this? I know this is a long post but thanks for the time. I am hoping for some factual knowledge on this as opposed to semi educated guesses if possible but all input is welcome.
Smitty
Brand new to this site but have been working with computers quite some time. I have something that has me unsure of what route to take.. could use some help if anyone can answer or help clarify. THANKS!
Buying a new PC in September. Was going to buy the following:
AMD 64 4000+ Socket 939 Processor
ASUS A8N SLI or A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard
3Gig 400 MHz DDR Ram
PCI Express 256MB Nvidia (GeForce) Vid Card (exact model undecided yet)
250 or 500 Gig SATA 300 Hard Drive(s)
- Basically a blazing fast PC. But here is where I started to wonder....
memory at 400MHz. There is some DDR2 Ram out there as high as 800MHz but the boards that support that only seem to be for the P4 chips and P4's seem to go as high as 3.6-3.8Ghz (MUCH more $$ than AMD 4000+) and FSB is 800MHz vs AMD 2000Mhz.
I am starting to wonder if maybe the slightly slower chip and front speed bus (P4) would actually outperform the AMD because you can have the RAM accessed at double the speed.
What I am getting at is would my screaming AMD system get bottle necked so much because of the much slower 400MHz Ram that the P4 system with 800MHz ram would out scream it so to speak?
Any insights on this? I know this is a long post but thanks for the time. I am hoping for some factual knowledge on this as opposed to semi educated guesses if possible but all input is welcome.
Smitty