Crucial OK w/A7N8X & XP2100+

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I'm using Crucial 2100 DDR, 256 mb. Would I notice performance
improvement if I replaced with Crucial DDR 2700? My mobo is the A7N8X "New
Version" from Newegg w/an XP2100+ Tbred "B". Use it mostly for surfing,
processing words, mailing e's and playing a few simple games.
Whichever I use, I will probably go to a total of 512 mb.
Thx, sdlomi
 
I'm using Crucial 2100 DDR, 256 mb. Would I notice performance
improvement if I replaced with Crucial DDR 2700? My mobo is the A7N8X "New
Version" from Newegg w/an XP2100+ Tbred "B". Use it mostly for surfing,
processing words, mailing e's and playing a few simple games.
Whichever I use, I will probably go to a total of 512 mb.
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For your uses, I don't think the difference would be very noticeable.
Faster memory comes into its own with more complex games.
 
FWIW, I run my pc2100 256 meg cl2.5 stick from Crucial at 166 speed,
had to tweak memory settings a bit for stability, but it works just
fine.

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Best regards,
Kyle
| I'm using Crucial 2100 DDR, 256 mb. Would I notice performance
| improvement if I replaced with Crucial DDR 2700? My mobo is the
A7N8X "New
| Version" from Newegg w/an XP2100+ Tbred "B". Use it mostly for
surfing,
| processing words, mailing e's and playing a few simple games.
| Whichever I use, I will probably go to a total of 512 mb.
| Thx, sdlomi
|
|
 
Short answer: no - don't bother buying new RAM until you buy a faster CPU.

Long answer: Your current RAM and CPU run at the same bus speed: 133MHz.
DDR 2700 RAM runs at 166MHz. [It can run slower, too, but why the heck
would you do *that*? :-] Based on the benchmarks I've seen, you get a
negligible performance boost at best from running your RAM asynchronously
(i.e., faster than your FSB speed), and sometimes take a performance *hit*,
due to synchronization issues. So I would hold off on upgrading your RAM
until you upgrade your CPU too.
 
sdlomi said:
I'm using Crucial 2100 DDR, 256 mb. Would I notice performance
improvement if I replaced with Crucial DDR 2700? My mobo is the A7N8X "New
Version" from Newegg w/an XP2100+ Tbred "B". Use it mostly for surfing,
processing words, mailing e's and playing a few simple games.
Whichever I use, I will probably go to a total of 512 mb.
Thx, sdlomi
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Possibly.

I am using PC3200 with my XP 2100, but my board won't go above 185Mhz FSB
(standard cooling).
 
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