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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:02 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, John Turnbull <johnrt@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD - jrt
Message-ID:  <01042711040202.00623@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com>
References:  <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com>

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On Thursday 26 April 2001 23:32, Marc W wrote:
>     I'm running a 1000Mhz Thunderbird on an A7V motherboard with PC133
> SDRAMs, and it rocks.  Don't recommend IDE on such a system though --
> it's pretty painful with the latencies ...
>
>     I plan to buy a DDR memory system next ...  bang for the buck, the
> athlons are hard to beat.
>

I have an ASUS A7M266 with 256MB of PC2100 memory and a 1200MHz Athlon with 
133 MHz FSB. The very small gain in performance over using PC133 memory with 
a 133 MHz FSB is not worth the extra cost for DDR memory. Until DDR RAM gets 
to be as cheap as PC133 RAM I can only recommend staying away from DDR mobo's.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org

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