Socket A memory and chips??

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I don't understand what all the "speed" ratings of components mean. All I want
to do is make a PC for home office use and light gaming (maybe GTA3 and little
kid games) so I figure any 1500 would be fast enough since I'm doing these
things on a Pentium III/1000 pretty well now. And I want to use the hardware I
have on hand, shown below.

I have a Socket A mother (ASRock k7s41gx) board with 333 front side bus, an
Athlon 1500+ chip, and PC2100 memory (=266 speed something I think). Will this
combination work OK together?

Given the 333 FSB board, what would be the optimal chip/mamory combo?

Would PC2700 memory make this any faster, and could the Athlon 1500+ chip take
advantage of faster memory? Would I even notice? Since faster AMD chips can
be installed, where would I notice any speed increase. Remember that Internet
and office duty will make up 90% activity.... but more power is always
desirable.

Any advice appreciated. Thanks

 

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:10:00 +0000, TANKIE wrote:

> I don't understand what all the "speed" ratings of components mean. All I want
> to do is make a PC for home office use and light gaming (maybe GTA3 and little
> kid games) so I figure any 1500 would be fast enough since I'm doing these
> things on a Pentium III/1000 pretty well now. And I want to use the hardware I
> have on hand, shown below.
>
> I have a Socket A mother (ASRock k7s41gx) board with 333 front side bus, an
> Athlon 1500+ chip, and PC2100 memory (=266 speed something I think). Will this
> combination work OK together?
>
> Given the 333 FSB board, what would be the optimal chip/mamory combo?
>
> Would PC2700 memory make this any faster, and could the Athlon 1500+ chip take
> advantage of faster memory? Would I even notice? Since faster AMD chips can
> be installed, where would I notice any speed increase. Remember that Internet
> and office duty will make up 90% activity.... but more power is always
> desirable.
>
> Any advice appreciated. Thanks

First get it working at default. That's 1333MHz (10x133). After that,
depending on many factors, you should be able to run it at 166Mhz FSB with
the default 10 multiplier. When you start changing the default FSB speed
there's a lot to be taken into account. Vcore, ram bus speed, PCI/AGP bud
speeds, etc., but it's not real hard to do as long as you know what you
have and what it's capable of. Basically if you up the FSB to 166, you
need to make sure your ram stays at 133 since that's the rating for
PC2100. You also need to make sure, the bus divider is set to 5 to get the
correct PCI/AGP bus speeds (33/66). This is auto on some boards, but I
don't know about yours. And finally, you'll probably need to raise vcore.
Without knowing which cpu core you have, I can't say what it may need to
be rqaised to, but probably 1.65v or 1.75v minimum (Tbred/Palomino cores).
That should be enough to get you started. Oh, the very basics, Multipler
times FSB = CPU speed. It pretty simple if your components work at faster
speeds.

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