I am building a dual xeon machine w/ 2.4/512/533 Xeons and am trying to figure out which board toget and which mem.
Right now I have already two 512MB Samsung PC2700 ECC Registered modules.
I can either sell them, and get an ASUS PC-DL mobo, which supports up to DDR333 RAM, or keep my mem and get the 7505 chipset which supports the standard 266 ECC RAM.
I will be using the machine for
1. Games (I can amdit it!)
2. Photoshop/Fireworks/Flash apps
3. Web and FTP hosting (my own stuff)
My Dilemma:
The mobo that supports slower ECC also has 64 bit slots (for my SCSI U160 RAID controller which run 6 SCSI drives in 2 arrays).
The mobo with faster RAM only has 33MHz PCI slots.
Which would you guys prefer for my apps?
Take the slower mem with the PCI-X slots for the faster RAID?
Or take the mobo with the faster RAM and slower RAID?
Thanks in advance as usual!
Right now I have already two 512MB Samsung PC2700 ECC Registered modules.
I can either sell them, and get an ASUS PC-DL mobo, which supports up to DDR333 RAM, or keep my mem and get the 7505 chipset which supports the standard 266 ECC RAM.
I will be using the machine for
1. Games (I can amdit it!)
2. Photoshop/Fireworks/Flash apps
3. Web and FTP hosting (my own stuff)
My Dilemma:
The mobo that supports slower ECC also has 64 bit slots (for my SCSI U160 RAID controller which run 6 SCSI drives in 2 arrays).
The mobo with faster RAM only has 33MHz PCI slots.
Which would you guys prefer for my apps?
Take the slower mem with the PCI-X slots for the faster RAID?
Or take the mobo with the faster RAM and slower RAID?
Thanks in advance as usual!