Kevin Saenz wrote:
>>I was hoping to rescue the RAM and just upgrade the CPU and
>>motherboard. My current video is PCI.
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>It depends on the CPU you are going to buy. I doubt that if you
>Buy any thing faster than a 1.2GHz that you will be able to use
>SDRAM. I Don't think the older style of RAM is capable handling
>the bus speed.
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This isn't actually true. The bus used in the athlon is either 100Mhz
electrical {200 DDR}
or 133Mhz electrical {266 DDR} this means if you have the right
motherboard with
sdram support it can be used at either 100 Mhz or 133 Mhz often known
as PC100 or
PC133 Sdram. However the memory throughput will be reduced and the
overall performance
of the machine will be less.
My point is, it will work even on the latest athlons, if the Sdram board
has a bios update to
support the latest athlons.
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>>What is DDR and what will it do for me?
>>What Motherboard site should I check before buying?
>>Is on board sound 'safe' currently?
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>You could have a look at http://www.tomshardware.com there you will
>get all the answers you need. :)
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