DDR2100 or DDR2700?

[meaty]

I am going to purchase another stick of ram.
I have atm DDR2100 & was wondering if I should get 2700 or more 2100?
Do the future 333A mobos & T-breds run better with 2700 or will the cheaper 2100 be fine with the new 333A chipset mobos & T-breds?

Please reply

 

[AkumaBao]

I wouldn't mix-match the two, unless you plan to go all 2700's. Unless your mobo is able to use 2700's why even buy it?

 

[bocamojo]

If you've already got PC2100, it will work fine on recent and probably near future mobo releases that support DDR. If you're purchasing for the future, then PC2700 is a safe buy, and it's not all that much more expensive than PC2100. I just built a P4 1.6A system (oc'd to 2.13) on an Asus P4B266 board, and the Crucial PC2100 stick I have in it works just fine (in fact, I have the FSB set to 132 and the memory set to 3:4, 2:2:2:7... which means my RAM is handling some very good overclocking). Since I bought the stick for 25 bucks a few months ago (when memory was cheapest), I didn't see any sense in spending 100 bucks on a stick of PC2700 (Kingmax). But if I were buying now, the price difference of 15 to 20 dollars would not disuade me from buying the faster PC2700 stick.

 

[Leokor]

<< I wouldn't mix-match the two, unless you plan to go all 2700's. Unless your mobo is able to use 2700's why even buy it? >>


Any mobo that supports PC2100 also supports PC2700. They will all run on the same memory bus, anyway, and you won't tell PC2700 from PC2100 at 133MHz. (And you won't tell PC2100 from PC2700, if it can be overclocked to run at 166MHz, either.) What the so-called PC2700-support motherboards do is they allow different frequencies for the CPU bus and for the memory bus, so that the former could still run at 133MHz, while the latter would run at 166MHz.

Leo