Well I am planning a future Athlon64 purchase, just when nforce3 250 boards with 939 support and PCI Express slot come out, and I need some questions answered so I can plan the other stuff I am gonna need (Ram mostly...)
Questions:
1) As far as I know the non-FX A64s are locked so you cant change multipliers, so I was wondering what tolerability do nforce3 chipsets have? Do they do 250MHz easily? can they reach 300MHz just like the 875 Intel chips do?
2) Has AMD fixed the dual channel problem the XPs had? What I mean is, do the A64s have a real dual channel or like the XPs that only gained a 10% or something due to their architecture...I know the A64 currently is single channel and I can possibly demand from you to know what will hap[pen with the 939s that will be dual channeled, but I think you can answer this if you got some experience with the current FX.
3) Can the A64 run non-sync with the RAM? Becaus eI remember that if the XP runs non-sync you lose too much performance. I remember that a typical barton with 333MHz FSB, if it was run with 333MHz ram it would perform better than if with 400MHz ram and a divider used....however strange as it seems...well is this ficed now or whatever I do I should consider running sync the only choice?
Thats mostly my tech questions, and now a time release question.
When do you think the 939s will come out and the new 250 mobos? and when do you think pci express for VGA cards will be added?
I thank you in advance, nd hope for an early reply...
Questions:
1) As far as I know the non-FX A64s are locked so you cant change multipliers, so I was wondering what tolerability do nforce3 chipsets have? Do they do 250MHz easily? can they reach 300MHz just like the 875 Intel chips do?
2) Has AMD fixed the dual channel problem the XPs had? What I mean is, do the A64s have a real dual channel or like the XPs that only gained a 10% or something due to their architecture...I know the A64 currently is single channel and I can possibly demand from you to know what will hap[pen with the 939s that will be dual channeled, but I think you can answer this if you got some experience with the current FX.
3) Can the A64 run non-sync with the RAM? Becaus eI remember that if the XP runs non-sync you lose too much performance. I remember that a typical barton with 333MHz FSB, if it was run with 333MHz ram it would perform better than if with 400MHz ram and a divider used....however strange as it seems...well is this ficed now or whatever I do I should consider running sync the only choice?
Thats mostly my tech questions, and now a time release question.
When do you think the 939s will come out and the new 250 mobos? and when do you think pci express for VGA cards will be added?
I thank you in advance, nd hope for an early reply...