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Originally posted by Earthdog:
The AMD XP 2800+ has a FSB of 333MHz. AMD is just now starting to release the processors that run with that FSB speed. You'll get great performance but youll have to pay for it. If you get a XP 2800+ youll want the ram to match it. PC2700 is the 333MHz RAM. Getting PC3200 will effectively change the latency to a higher speed. Preferably get 1 stick of 512 meg so if you want to upgrade later you may not be so limited on your DIMM slots.
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want two sticks. Why? Because using both DualDDR slots you halve the latency and double the bandwidth. With 400mhz DDR (PC3200) you will have twice the bandwidth and half the latency of PC800 RDRAM. However, with the 333mhz FSB cpus, you will want PC2700 because you take a performance hit when the FSB doesn't match the speed of the memory - and AMD hasn't got 400mhz FSB cpus yet.
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unts the Asus A7N8X is the best MoBo on the market right now. I think it also has a built in LAN card that will transfer data at 1 Gigabit per second, or 10 times faster than a standard 100mbs network card. Thats smokin 
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two!
[ 01-15-2003, 07:27 AM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]