Questions about the Asus P4P800 Deluxe.....

[sorehead]

...........before I buy it. 1. I notice on the asus website that it has a list of vendors for memory for this board. Does it mean I can't use Crucial brand memory? Also as I look at the Crucial website I notice that their pc3200 ddr ram has a clk of 3, while the 2700 has a clk of 2.5. I thought the lower number was faster? What ddr ram should be used? In pairs,
right? Also I still like a floppy drive, that is a floppy connector shown on the board, is it not? And lastly, I currently have a ATI Expert 128 AGP video card and I don't think it wll work perfectly with this board or will it? I refuse to spend a large chunk of change on a video card if but if I gotta upgrade it then what are some reasonable alternatives price wise and I perfer ATI cards? Sorry for the lenght of the post but want these answers before I commit.

 

[sorehead]

Yep, a shameless BUMP!

 

[Jack4KickAss]

The memory given on the website has been tested by Asus to be fully functional with the mb, by means of you can set the mb to it's highest preformance and it will run stable.

The memory you want to buy will also work, but might need a bit of a work a round if you want to run tighter ram timings.

My P4C800 runs fine with memory that not on the website, but I can't run tighter memory timings without increasing the DDR voltage in the bios. Also can't set it to turbo.

For the graphics card you must check if it is at least 4x Agp, or even better 8x Agp. If it's not it won't work.