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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: aSTAR on March 03, 2003, 09:21:29 AM

Title: WHICH ONE? Cru or Mush?
Post by: aSTAR on March 03, 2003, 09:21:29 AM

My MoBo will be ASUS P4G8X Deluxe, CPU INTEL 2.66 GHz.
I would like an oppinion on a mem selection.
My thoughts are: Crucial 4-126MB 2700 Dimms $168.00 OR
Mushkin 4-126MB 2700 Dimms (BLUE) $280.00
These are the reccomended types by the Dimm Mfgrs.
Why not the 3200 Dimms?
Thanks in advance.

Title: WHICH ONE? Cru or Mush?
Post by: bloom25 on March 03, 2003, 11:46:20 AM

Unless you plan on overclocking, PC3200 would be a complete waste of money.  The Granite Bay chipset doesn't support a 400 MHz memory clock (which would require PC3200).

Title: WHICH ONE? Cru or Mush?
Post by: Vermillion on March 03, 2003, 11:56:54 AM

I just bought that motherboard.  Very nice, but it seems that the Granite Bay chipset as a whole is having some stability problems with Radeon 9700 Pro's.  Look in my XP/9700 Pro thread for details.