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CPU motherboard RAM match question
Name: satimis Date: September 26, 2004 at 09:12:29 Pacific OS: Gentoo 1.4 CPU/Ram: PII-350/256MB
Comment:
Hi folks,
I'm going to upgrade CPU, Motherboard and RAM of a workstation and found following combination interesting
AMD 64 2800+ 512K Abit KV8 Pro (I prefer motherboard chip supporting ncq for SATA2 HD. A folk on another list said this motherboard supporting it) http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=176
Patriot PC4000-512 DC 512MB / DDR-RAM / PC4000 990 OR PC4000-512 EP 512MB / DDR-RAM / PC4000 790
Any matching problem?
Your comment will be appreciated. What is RAM DC vs RAM EP, DC being more expensive.
Name: ron Date: September 26, 2004 at 09:33:25 Pacific
Reply:
The board you mention supports 2 sticks of pc 3200 400mhz ram , & the cpu you mention , plus sata
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: September 26, 2004 at 09:44:48 Pacific
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"I prefer motherboard chip supporting ncq for SATA2 HD. A folk on another list said this motherboard supporting it"
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that Intel is the only chipset manufacturer supporting NCQ right now. There's nothing listed in the ABIT specs about it & usually they tout such things....
Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB
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Response Number 3
Name: satimis Date: September 26, 2004 at 10:11:18 Pacific
Reply:
Hi ron and jam,
Tks for your advice. So far as I know Intel 915/925 chips support ncq. If the motherboard does not support ncq, I will give up searching motherboard supporting ncq. Then I have many options on AMD-64 motherboard selection.
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