Guest N3Z Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 I was about to buy the new Amd athlon XP processor, but then i figured out you have to have DDRram with the Xp processors and its incompatible with SDram????! So i got a bunch of these SDRAM's And i dont want to buy a new motherboard that only accept DDRram, then i have to scrap the SD and buy lots of expensive DDR. i simply dont have the money!! Is DDr Motherboards with DDR compitable with SDRAM and XP? Anyway, to be certain, i ordered Athlon Thunderbird, 1,4 gigahertz, and not the XP version.. Now another question.. Is there a big difference between Xp and ordinary thunderbird athlon's ?? Then what is it? thx for the great replies!! take care! Quote
Guest Mike Indidginus Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 Hi N3Z, Try Athlon technical support on http://www.amd.com - I'm sure they will be able to give you the ins and outs of both chips Quote
Guest antic Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 xp's have some technique named quad-speed or something like that and it speedens the execution of code. so athlon xp 1,5+ really has a 1,3 clock, but effectively it works as if it had 1,5... I don't know if it requires DDR memory to work, but on amd's page there are recommended main-boards and some of them do not support DDR, so it probably doesn't need them... but will certainly work better with them Quote
Guest N3Z Posted December 11, 2001 Posted December 11, 2001 I'm at amd's site right now!! Excellent! thank you very much!! Quote
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