hi ppl..i need some help withe logic of these things when buildign a
comp
does the memoryss speed need to match the fsb of mobo? does clock speed
have to be a multiple of of th fsb of mobo? etc. etc. ive seen things
like this here and there
can someone give me a summary of this info as in which speeds would
give me optimal performance?..lets say i havea mobo with fsb 1066/800..
wat sort of ram and cpu would i be looking at for best performance?
LONG WINDED RANT BELOW - LOTS OF GOOD INFO THO:
You need to consider the FSB of your motherboard for the most part. If
you have a screamingly fast chip in a mobo with a lower fsb, you have
(pretty much) wasted your cash. Think of it like a racecar VS the
speedlimit. the FSB of your processor is like the max speed of a car,
and the FSB of your motherboard is like the speedlimit on the road.
It is best to match your chips FSB to your boards FSB. (put a racecar
on a racetrack)
Make the following considerations in the order listed. As a rule, as
the list goes down, the more speed you buy will cost you more money.
Start with your mobo/processor first. In my opinion, you should not
ever cheap out on your mobo/chip. a few more bucks will buy you a
significant amount of speed, with other parts though, a lot more
dollars, will buy you far lesser amounts of speed (ie: it isn't really
worth it)
Choose your mobo first (at LEAST something with an 800 MHZ FSB), then
get a chip with a matching FSB. if you are building a gaming machine,
you need to go with a pentum 4 or AMD64 or better (depending on how
much you want to spend). if you want speed, stay away from celeron's
and durons. Get duo core or 64 bit technology and run with it. if you
are building an econmy box -celerons and durons will work fine
the next thing to consider would be RAM. Get the most ram with the
fastest clock speed that you are willing to afford. But don't feel bad
if you can't afford the very best. your machine will still kick ass.
the next thing to consider would be redundancy and/or spindle speed of
your hard drives. SATA drives are probably the best way to go for your
dollar. you can get SCSI drives that spin 10000 RPM but they cost lots
more and are smaller in capacity. If you have the money, set up RAID
as well - the more hard drives you have simultaneously talking to your
processor, the less waiting it (and you) will have to do. If you don't
wanna pop for the SATA drives, IDE's are cool too. Just make sure you
don't get anything less than 7200 RPM or your hard drive will slow down
the performance of your entire computer (no matter how great the parts
that you put in are). a cheap trick to squeeze a little extra juice
out of your machine is to load your OS onto an older, smaller hard
drive that you may have laying around. Invest in a large capacity
drive to load your programs and data on. The advantage is the same as
RAID - although you aren't using any redundacny, you are still working
with 2 disks, effectively cutting your seek time in half for many
operations.
Hope this helps.
AR
For example, 200MHz RAM is called DDR400, as it is effectively