Nforce2-which memory

[NicColt]

>Next question: is it likely that a Barton CPU work in my current mobo (A7N8X)?

Well I read a comdex report a while back and nvidia were running a barton on an nforce2 board and nvidia mentioned that all nforce2 board would be able to run bartons. Weather they were running a 333 or 400 barton I don't know.

 

[Literatii]

Well last night I decided to see what this rev 3.2 PC2700 OCZ could do and set it to 2-2-2-2 (from 3-2-2-2). That's 2x256 sticks running at 278mhz. After 4 hours of Dark Age of Camelot (which pushes my system pretty hard), and another few hours of BF1942 it's obviously stable. $86.

 

[NicColt]

>That's 2x256 sticks running at 278mhz.

What cpu/mobo you running this with ???

 

[chibchakan]

PC 3200 / 3500 Shootout

 

[SpideyCU]

Yech...I wasn't aware Samsung was such a poor performer.

 

[Gasman]

I'm thinking about trying this, with a 1st attempt at some overclocking.
Reporting much overclocking success on other forums with this and the Nforce boards.
~$85 for 256Mb stick.

TwinMOS PC3200 DDR400
Uses Winbond 5ns chips

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A review...

 

[lsitter]

Ok, I'm ordering the Epox 8RDA+ with the Athlon 2100+ XP. I will get 2700 mem (512K) but I'm an idiot. I don't know the diff between ecc, reg, etcera... anyway, with that in mind, what specs of RAM do I NEED? I will probably by Corsair. I'm not an OC'er, I just want a fast system to waste time (not money) on. Thanks for your help.

Lou

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: lsitter
Ok, I'm ordering the Epox 8RDA+ with the Athlon 2100+ XP. I will get 2700 mem (512K) but I'm an idiot. I don't know the diff between ecc, reg, etcera... anyway, with that in mind, what specs of RAM do I NEED? I will probably by Corsair. I'm not an OC'er, I just want a fast system to waste time (not money) on. Thanks for your help.

Lou

Bottom line: For you (non-overclocker) Go to Crucial.com. Buy two, 256MB sticks of PC2700. Put one stick on each channel of teh NForce mobo and you'll be set for a long time.

 

[lsitter]

Thank you for the advice! Why 2 256k and not 1 512k?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: lsitter
Thank you for the advice! Why 2 256k and not 1 512k?

To take advantage of the NForce's Twin-bank architecture.

 

[Gasman]

Mike D:

You posted in the other EPOX thread where Insane3D, Elite Member

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12/03/2002 1:50 AM

Said:

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Originally posted by: buckchoi
Do you have 2 sticks of RAM to utilise the Dual DDR or just the one 512mb stick?
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"Nope just one. You do know that the dual channel bandwith only helps the NF2 with the integrated graphics right? Dual channel DDR on the Athlon yields little to no performance difference.."

Now, do we need 1 stick or 2, if we're utilizing a video card? This crap really has me confused...

 

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"Nope just one. You do know that the dual channel bandwith only helps the NF2 with the integrated graphics right? Dual channel DDR on the Athlon yields little to no performance difference.."

Now, do we need 1 stick or 2, if we're utilizing a video card? This crap really has me confused...[/quote]

A video card has its own RAM. "Integrate graphics" means that there is video circuitry built right into the motherboard (just like the sound chips, ethernet controller, USB controller, etc.). That circuitry must use the system RAM, which is why doubling the memory bandwidth will improve performance. If you don't have integrated graphics (or are not using it because you put a video card in, like you did), then the added bandwidth goes mostly unused, so you might as well just get 1 stick.