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Subject: Re: Motherboard Question for Dual Core Athlon 3800+

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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