lo can u lend me some of your 1337 experteese? i am tryin to build a system its a P4 1.5 / 1.6 to go in a coolermaster atcs 201 case, i am tryin to find a m.board, to go with it but don't know whether to go for DDR or Rimm mem as diff m.borads are compatable with diff types, a) which m.board is best for the price? b) which mem type is best and why? erm btw if i can get away with it 256Mb will do for the min wont it plz help cus i am lost Teeps
I cant see any L337 people so i'll have to do. Okay, you want a motherboard for a P4. I have little/no experience with P4s - go around a few online stores - look out for 'P4', find a model number, goto the vendor site and readup on the specs - suit you? No? Then try another - there it will tell you what type of RAM it take (probably RAMBUS - again no P4 experience), then you look for prices on that type of RAM (dont forget how many RAM slots your desired motherboard has) - then ORDER. A good place to start (UK) is www.ebuyer.com I have purchased many items from there and i have mostly been pleased with them... Good luck...
Now would not seem a good time to be buying a P4. The transition to the rather better northwood core is just starting, and the i845D is not long for this world, to be replaced by a higher performance i845E. Why P4 though? RAMBUS suits P4 very well, because both are high bandwidth, high latency systems, while DDR suits AMD very well, as they are lower bandwidth, lower latency set-ups.
