Can't find any post on this, but it's just a quick question. I'm building a computer with a Celeron D processor purely because of the cost and the fact the computer will only be used for Internet usage, word processing and limited media viewing. A friend of mine pointed out that the Celeron D may have problems with running RAM to its specs. Is this true? If I get a Celeron D 2.8Ghz, and a stick of PC3200 512MB RAM for example, might the processor adversly effect the memory? Or, of course, my friend might just be screwing with me and the CPU has nothing to do with the ram...

"A friend of mine pointed out that the Celeron D may have problems with running RAM to its specs"........what exactly does this imply? Your Celeron D actually runs @ 133Mhz (quadpumped 533FSB), as you know PC3200 memory is rated @ 200MHz and for optimal performance you want to always have the memory and CPU run synchronously. Not knowing for sure what your friend is talking about, I'd say maybe bandwidth discrepancy in that your celeron offers a theoretical bus bandwidth up to 4.2 GB/s, while your PC3200 chip has a memory bandwidth up to 3.2GB/s which means a bandwidth surplus on the CPU side. The only way for you to match memory bandwidth to the CPU's in your situation will be to get a couple of PC 2100 ram chips and run them in dual channel. IMHO, if you already got PC3200 ram, just use it and worryless about the bandwidth bottleneck. A Celeron D 2.8Ghz has more than ehough processing power for internet browsing, word processing etc.... B4 you criticize a bigger man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away, and you have his shoes.

Cool, thanks for that. I'm going to go with the PC3200 ram and the celeron d, ignoring the discrepencies for now...