Ineresting the AMD 2500 is a slower clock than the 2400

[numa at thenuma.com]

WEll... ok, a few general rules.  You want to run your memmory bus
synced with your Front side Bus, so, if you get a 2500 barton which is a
333 chip, you only actually need 333Mhz ddr memmory.  Now, cl2 memmory
will tend to be a fuzz quicker than cl 2.5.  So, if your choice is
400mhz 2.5 memmory and 333mhz cl2 memmory, gofor the 333.  someday we
will need 400 mhz memmory, but hey, how often have you reused memmory
from one
generation to the next (I would bet never).

Second, you should look into the asus a7n8x the one with the nvidia
nforce2 chipset, as it has a dual memmory bus, so use 2 512mb sticks of
cas 2 ddr400... yum.

kris

> Well I was thinking of an Asus a7v8x w/ a 2500barton vs 2400+xp
>
> Any thoughts on which ram to use?  what is the cl2.0 vs 2.5?  I notice
> the kingston and crucial 2700 512meg are about $70 while the mushikan
> is
>
>   $140.  The specs look the same.
>
> Aaron wrote:
>> I don't use AMD's for specifically this reason.  The VP of Marketing
>> from AMD and I had a discussion about this 10 years ago with the
>> 486's.  They wanted to call their dx2-80 a dx4-100 because the
>> performance was equivalent (in their opinion).  I spent a three hour
>> lunch explaining to him why that was wrong.  Now they're doing it
>> with the Thunderbirds.  It's confusing at best and misleading at
>> worst.
>>
>> the performance issue on this is a bus speed issue.  Of course a 266
>> bus is going to be slower then a 333 bus.  It doesn't really matter
>> what the processor speed is.  All people look at is the price and the
>> "number" (notice I didn't say speed).
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <numa at thenuma.com>
>> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:29 AM
>> Subject: Re: Ineresting the AMD 2500 is a slower clock than the 2400
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>>>Same thing happened from T-bred a --> B.  I have the tbred B2400
>>> running at 2200 Mhz.  :)
>>>
>>>Kris
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>>>>
>>>>ATHLON XP 2500 CPU: 1.83 GHz
>>>>266 Bus
>>>>ATHLON XP 2400 XP 2400 Thoroughbred
>>>>333 Bus
>>>>Info from www.newegg.com catalog
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