DonS1mpson
07-23-2006, 02:11 AM
Hi,
I'm on a little bit of a tight budget and I need to build a system that will be used mostly for games that will last me about a month. I've got the case, power supply, video card, hard drive and RAM that was used in an AMD build until the motherboard and/or cpu decided to die on me, so all I should need is the motherboard and the CPU
The system I have in mind is a Intel Celeron D 346 (3.0GHz chip), with a cheap LGA775 DDR motherboard so that that I can reuse my 1GB of PC3200 DDR ram.
First of all, I'd like to know what motherboard you'd recommend for me, it has to use DDR ram and have a PCI-E x16 slot for my video card, all of the boards I've found look good, but run the x16 slot in x4 mode :mad:
And second, am I likely to take any sort of a performace hit from using the DDR ram? If so, how serious will it be?
As I said, it's only for a month, then I'll be upgrading the motherboard and RAM to something more overclockable in just a month, but I just can't wait any longer!
I'm on a little bit of a tight budget and I need to build a system that will be used mostly for games that will last me about a month. I've got the case, power supply, video card, hard drive and RAM that was used in an AMD build until the motherboard and/or cpu decided to die on me, so all I should need is the motherboard and the CPU
The system I have in mind is a Intel Celeron D 346 (3.0GHz chip), with a cheap LGA775 DDR motherboard so that that I can reuse my 1GB of PC3200 DDR ram.
First of all, I'd like to know what motherboard you'd recommend for me, it has to use DDR ram and have a PCI-E x16 slot for my video card, all of the boards I've found look good, but run the x16 slot in x4 mode :mad:
And second, am I likely to take any sort of a performace hit from using the DDR ram? If so, how serious will it be?
As I said, it's only for a month, then I'll be upgrading the motherboard and RAM to something more overclockable in just a month, but I just can't wait any longer!