Hi-End XP's + SDRAM Mobos = OK Perf?

[ragejg]

YEah, the XP 2200/2400/2600 are great and fast and efficient, but has anyone ever run benchmarks of these processors on any late-gen SDRAM mobo's? A friend has a duron 1000 on a GA-7ZMMH km133a(my old system) which is newer and has support for XP2600, and I'm wondering if OVERALL (not just memory speed) system perf. would actually be near screaming fast on a mobo like this (as opposed to something like a 760/kt266a/kt333. He's gonna upgrade this thing quite a bit (keepin the mobo) around tax time, and I wanna talk him into a fast fast XP IF it's worth it... and maybe he'll ditch his GF2MX400 (I'm sellin it for him) for an nv30...


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[Smokey]

Sure it will be ok, but it would be better to save some money and not get the top XP (2600+) maybe 2200+/2400+ and get a new motherboard with the money saved? if its about the cost of changing the memory also, there are some SDR/DDR boards out there and they are cheap.

[StealthHawk]

i have a feeling changing the motherboard and adding DDR with a slightly slower CPU would be the better bargain.

[ReDeeMeR]

^ Agree

[Cons]

its not wise to buy one of the highest end cpu, coz they'r overpriced for the time being. after a few months ull see that the price will be A LOT lower. so just get a DDR capable mobo,if u dont then ur RAM will be ur systems bottleneck. balance ur rig and ull get peak performance. so get a DDR supported mobo and a not-so-high-end cpu

[StealthHawk]

AMD CPUs aren't that hideously overpriced at introduction. but even if you buy one model down the price is already considerably lower, and it won't drop by much, discounting the seasonal pricecuts that seem to take place every so often.