My Bitchin PC Has Arrived!

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Originally posted by gekko
Ok, here's some articles if you care to read them:

850E: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1615&p=1

845E and 845G: http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/sh...tml?i=1624&p=1

I appreciate the help.

I think I know what I want now. It looks like the Intel i850E motherboard doesn't "officially" support PC1066 RDRAM (only PC800), but it essentially has no problem running the RDRAM at that speed. Funny, it also says the older i850 boards only supports 400 FSB, yet most i850 boards will work just fine at 533 FSB just it's also not "officially" supported. In fact, the i850E board is hardly changed at all from the i850, the 533FSB is just official now with a few minor changes to make sure the 533FSB works.

I think that's what Tom's Hardware was trying to tell me, but they didn't make it nearly as clear.

Anyway, so I think what I'm going to get are these:

• Intel i850E motherboard
• PC800 RDRAM

And then simply overclock the PC800 RDRAM to PC1066. AnandTech said the new Samsung PC800 RDRAM units works just fine for that, so I'll trust them.

Now I need to know how to overclock memory. Is it in the BIOS? I'll look...

Thanks again.

db