Faulty Motherboard

[Dave D]

Maybe. Unless the CPU has a 266 FSB, you will be better off buying the
400. It's not that expensive, and you will see a big performance
improvement over the 266 if you do alot of number crunching.

Faster memory (and hence bus speed) gives a general performance increase,
not just number crunching.

Dave

 

[M.Joshi]

"Daniel Rudy" [email protected] wrote in message

Maybe. Unless the CPU has a 266 FSB, you will be better off buyin
the
400. It's not that expensive, and you will see a big performance
improvement over the 266 if you do alot of number crunching.


Faster memory (and hence bus speed) gives a general performanc
increase,
not just number crunching.

Dave

We ordered an Asus board (P4V800D-X) with a VIA chipset - don't ho
good these are?

Also purchaed some 512MB PC3200 Corsair RAM. We previously ha
Kingston RAM but for some reason, the Corsair was cheaper?

If I use the old 266 RAM with the new one, will that drastically affec
the performance?

Thanks

 

[Dave D]

We ordered an Asus board (P4V800D-X) with a VIA chipset - don't how
good these are?

Asus are a respected brand.

Also purchaed some 512MB PC3200 Corsair RAM. We previously had
Kingston RAM but for some reason, the Corsair was cheaper?

If I use the old 266 RAM with the new one, will that drastically affect
the performance?

Not one bit, because your old CPU (which I assume you intend to use in the
new mobo) only runs at an FSB speed of 266MHz anyway. The faster memory will
simpy run at 266MHz as well.

Dave

 

[Daniel Rudy]

At about the time of 2/21/2006 2:48 PM, Dave D stated the following:

Faster memory (and hence bus speed) gives a general performance increase,
not just number crunching.

Dave

That is true, but for general computer use like word processing and web
browsing, you may or may not see much difference YMMV. Where you really
see the difference is CPU/Memory/Bus intensive apps like video
processing, gaming, or general number crunching.

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[Dave D]

That is true, but for general computer use like word processing and web
browsing, you may or may not see much difference YMMV. Where you really
see the difference is CPU/Memory/Bus intensive apps like video
processing, gaming, or general number crunching.

Fair comment.

dave