amd athlon xp 2500 barton with ddr400

I have a question about hardware compatability in a new AMD system I'm
putting together. I got a good deal on a video card and 1gb of
ddr400 memory, and I wanted to try to conserve a little more money by
going with the Athlon xp 2500 processor (which has a 333mhz fsb),
instead of the Athlon xp 3000 or 3200 (with the 400mhz fsb). Am I
going to run into any issues running the 2500 with the ddr400 memory?
Should I just bite the bullet and upgrade to the 3000 or 3200 with
the 400mhz fsb? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...

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> I have a question about hardware compatability in a new AMD system I'm
> putting together. I got a good deal on a video card and 1gb of
> ddr400 memory, and I wanted to try to conserve a little more money by
> going with the Athlon xp 2500 processor (which has a 333mhz fsb),
> instead of the Athlon xp 3000 or 3200 (with the 400mhz fsb). Am I
> going to run into any issues running the 2500 with the ddr400 memory?
> Should I just bite the bullet and upgrade to the 3000 or 3200 with
> the 400mhz fsb? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...


well that depends on the MotherBoard and the maker of the memory.
Typically the should work fine together. But, sometimes you have to
fiddle with the bios settings to get it to work i.e increase the
memory clock speed yourself if your Mobo supports it otherwise you
will have to increase your FSB speed to the desired memory speed.

It might just be easier to buy the 3000 and be done with it? and get
better performace to boot.

good luck

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> () wrote in message
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> > I have a question about hardware compatability in a new AMD system I'm
> > putting together. I got a good deal on a video card and 1gb of
> > ddr400 memory, and I wanted to try to conserve a little more money by
> > going with the Athlon xp 2500 processor (which has a 333mhz fsb),
> > instead of the Athlon xp 3000 or 3200 (with the 400mhz fsb). Am I
> > going to run into any issues running the 2500 with the ddr400 memory?
> > Should I just bite the bullet and upgrade to the 3000 or 3200 with
> > the 400mhz fsb? Any advice would be greatly appreciated...
>
>
> well that depends on the MotherBoard and the maker of the memory.
> Typically the should work fine together. But, sometimes you have to
> fiddle with the bios settings to get it to work i.e increase the
> memory clock speed yourself if your Mobo supports it otherwise you
> will have to increase your FSB speed to the desired memory speed.
>
> It might just be easier to buy the 3000 and be done with it? and get
> better performace to boot.
>
> good luck



The best choiche for the Motherboard is Asus A7n8X Deluxe with nforce 2 ulta
400 chip
the best memory are corsair 3200LL 1024 CL 2 ( for twinx working)

I use this system.
i overclocked the memory to 445 FSB
and the asus board automatical unlocked the CPU
so you can set the multiplikator manually
In normal time it works as XP 4000+
But sometimes i pushed it to XP 4400+

All this system it be cooled with an vapochill
and my dial temparature is -3C

In connection with an ATI 9800XT im ready for maximal Gaming power :-)