Thanks Mat. This ASUS does support dual channel RAM. ftp://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4p800-mx/e1880_p4p800-mx.pdf
Looks like, if I moved up to a 800Mhz FSB, I'll have to get new RAM. :( CW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mat Maessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Re: OT: CPU question > On 9/29/06, cbwaters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My PC is a P4 1.7 (don't know the FSB speed) and I've got 504MB of DDR >> DIMM >> RAM (not sure of the speed there either) > > It's probably DDR400 RAM. The processor is 400 MHZ FSB. If you don't > have DDR400 memory, you'll see a performance increase just by > upgrading that. > >> Without switching motherboards, I can move up to around P4 3.0 with an >> 800Mhz FSB and hyper-threading for about $85. > > Honestly, unless you move up to a motherboard that either has > dual-channel RAM access, or uses DDR2 RAM (not backwards compatible > with your DDR RAM), you probably won't see much of a performance > difference. The real bottleneck is between the memory and the > processor. > >> How would one describe the improvement is speed here? 1-10 with ten >> being >> "waoh, that's the best $85 I ever spent!" > > Probably about a 2 or a 3 on that scale. Honestly, your money is > probably better spent in getting more memory. Photoshop is MUCH > happier on my machine with a gig of RAM available than it was with > only 512 megabytes. > > If I were in your position, I'd probably spend $50-60 to throw another > 512 megabytes of RAM at the machine, and start saving up for one of > the Intel-based macs. The Core 2 Duo would be a significant > improvement over what you have now. > > -Mat > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
