On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Mark K. Kim wrote: > - Fast bus speed. I don't know much about this... I think 133MHz > for Intel CPU and 200MHz for AMD CPU is good?
Umm.. that's where it gets fuzzy. PCI bus is still at 33MHz. Memory is at 66, 100, & 133MHz. Front side buses are at 100 (for the P3, I think), 266 (133 actually but DDR'd, meaning double data rate), and 400MHz (P4, but that doesn't mean it actually runs faster than a lower speed Athlon Thunderbird). > 4. Get RAM. Get the type that's fastest yet compatible with your > motherboard (most motherboard support different types so you can > use an older RAM in them.) Probably 256MB is good, but more the > better. Get all memory on one stick (ie - if getting 256MB, get > one stick with 256MB, not two with 128MB each.) -- this will make > upgrading easier and cheaper later (you can upgrade just by adding > more RAM to open slots, not replace the existing ones.) Make sure you get a motherboard (mobo in many articles you will read when doing research) with DDR RAM. I/O bottlenecks are affecting speed more and more. Plus, DDR RAM isn't that much more expensive compared to PC133 memory nowadays. > If getting IDE, avoid Western Digital or IBM -- they got bad > reps at the moment. IBM had one article on them about their 75XP drives. No big deal. :P Yeah, yeah, I'm picking apart your guide when I offered only a few sentences. Sorry. :D FL
