ok so i want to build a new PC as my old one well i still havent got a new PSU (see old threads lol) and i sold the pieces to a friend who can still use em. i want to build something cheap and slowly upgrade it as im low on cash, so i found a mobo that seems great its AMD so i can easily OC plus AMD is generaly cheaper then Intel, and it is 939 pin with support for Athlon /FX / X2 and... sempron lol, it has integrated graphics (nVidia GeForce 6100) which for me is good as i dont have money for a PCI-E card at that moment (and i like integrated just in case u burn ur card for some reason), the only thing im not sure is the ram slots, it uses DDR 400 and has 4 slots, but everyone uses DDR2 now is ddr400 still good and if so for how long, i mean all my PCs except for my laptop use PC133 (puke) and well DDR400 seems decent as the PC133 is running fine lol. so what are ur opinons note also that this board is diiirt cheap and is good to use till i can afford better stuff :] thank you. PC: CPU: P4 2.66 GHz RAM: 1GB HDD: 250GB GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Radeon x1600 128mb dedicated, 384Mb shared 512

Well. Basically IMO the only difference in between DDR and DDR2 is that DDR2 is more overclockable. DDR will still be available for some time. If you really want to and you're not going to go and try to overclock your CPU too much or your RAM or GPU card which sounds like you don't have one... Don't buy it. IMHO... Don't buy it. If it's like a PC Chips or something like that then don't even bother. It will die out on you in a matter of a couple of monthes. Cheap motherboards are worthless. They should die. So. If you are going to buy a cheap motherboard... Don't OVERCLOCK anything. You probably won't be able to crank out more than 400 mhz. And I know... One day you will be sitting at your computer and you'll say, "Man.. I wish I could overclock my processor.. Too bad my motherboard sucks."

"Man.. I wish I could overclock my processor.. Too bad my motherboard sucks." Toche lol hahaha lol, well its a temp the mobo will only cost 50 bucks which for now would be good enough until i buy the pieces slowly but i just want to know is DDR 400 good enough for at least a yr longer if not ill sell it later but just so i can budget my computer... and i have lived without OCing so i can continue till i get an asus board or something :] so main question: will DDR 400 be good enough for at least a yr? PC: CPU: P4 1.7 GHz RAM: 640 MB PC133 Puke HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Rade

ohh and the mobo is from Foxconn if that helps at all PC: CPU: P4 1.7 GHz RAM: 640 MB PC133 Puke HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Rade

Dude.. DDR400 will always be good. Same performance, same speed, blah blah blah. Yeah. It won't compete with the big guys runnin' DDR2 800 and overclocking the crap out of it on their eVGA 680i mobos or something. But it will last. I'm actually running 768mbs of DDR 400 right now in my current PC. It's holding up fine. And it's cheaper than DDR2 so yeah. But soon I'm going to upgrade to DDR2 [1 gig of PC2 6400] because I'm gonna build a new computer. $800 bucks for the whole thing but I think it will be worth it. Anyways. Stick with the DDR 400 is that's all you got. In a year DDR 400 will probably be obsolete [not literally, though] and DDR2 will finally take over completely.

DDR2 has longer bandwidth while DDR has lower Latency. So it's Latency vs Bandwidth. Some programs take more advantage of lower Latency then more bandwith while other programs take advantage of more bandwidth then lower Latency. DDR is a double-edged sword technology and forever will be until DDR is scraped altogether. The newer the versions the higher the memory Bandwidth but the longer the Latency times as well. XDR Ram like what's in the PS3 is the future, it can currently hold up to 16gb of memeory bandwidth(and climbing) but at the same time will continue to use a very low Latency. It is available in latencies of 1.25/3.0/2.5/3.33. The problem is XDR Ram as of right now cost 2x as much then the latest DDR series ram. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

ok so the mobo i want to get or anyone im looking at all need dual channel or something like that, i know what dual channel is (2 of the same module placed either in 1,2 or 1,3) but do i need to use dual channel instead can i just have 1x 1GB and let the other 3 slots be empty cause that would save me a little over 100 bucks as i have a pc3200 1gb ram PC: CPU: P4 1.7 GHz RAM: 640 MB PC133 Puke HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce FX 5500 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB HDD: 160GB GPU: Mobility Rade