Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 08:18:19 08/26/05
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On August 26, 2005 at 03:58:24, Joachim Rang wrote: >On August 26, 2005 at 03:37:50, William Sorin wrote: > >>Excuse my ignorance everyone, but how would I know what type of Socket 939 >>Athlon board to get that will support the dual core Athlon 3800? I'm not looking >>for something really expensive, just something that will run the processor. Also >>what's the least Fastest DDram memory to run such a processor? > >You mus check the manufacturers website if a BIOS-Update is available. I think >in most cases it is a decent board and not expensive is for example Asus A8V >Deluxe. > >DDRam is not so crucial for Chess performance. The fastet is curently for such a >board DDR400 sometimes called PC3200. > >regards Joachim And I can tell you that buying very expensive low latency ram is a waist of money on an amd64, it gains only a few percent at the most. Ernst.
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