Building Old Computer: Need Advice

[michaelsaxon]

I have some old parts laying around and I thought that I'd ask a bit of advice.

Should I put my Athlon 1400 in a Asus A7M266 with 256MB of RAM or a Abit KT7A with 512MB of RAM?

It has been so long that I've looked at these, that I can't remember which is better! Thanks.

 

[ryan954]

512MB of ram is better than 256MB of ram.

 

[cirthix]

what he said ^^^

 

[michaelsaxon]

I would think that the speed of the RAM and the features of the boards would matter also, but OK.

 

[imported_whatever]

i would go with the a7m266. iirc, it was a very high performance board for its time, and you will be using ddr instead of the sdram that the kt7a uses. there may be things that the 512MB ram will really help for, but i think the higher performance chipset and faster ram should help more.