P4P800 SE RAM+Cpu

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:12 am

Hi guys,bought this Mobo few months ago
and read that some RAM only runs at 333Mhz due to CPU limitations.
Which is best type of RAM?what is NON-EEC CL-2.5 etfc.
Which is best for this board.
Also which CPU is best?Is Prescott best?
Thanks for help

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:22 am

The Asus website will provide a list of all the approved memory chips. Anything else is a risk.

djfc100 · Post by **djfc100** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:09 am

Got 4x 512Mb pc3200 cas3 from crucial (CT6464Z40B). If you go to their site and type in the motherboard it will give a list that they say will work, if you do that and it doesn't work you can send it back. Also using a 3GHz northwood. Was rather concerned about the talk of how much power the prescot dissipates. Seems to be stable with mem86 and prime 95. Just put pulsar2 in the other day and got some sounds out, need to get a sequencer up and running now...

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:53 am

Ok thanks
Tried crucial,they give different types of RAM.
Heard Prescott CPU's are superior for music.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:03 am

On 2004-12-01 07:53, Music Manic wrote:
Heard Prescott CPU's are superior for music.

Do they sound better?

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:37 am

On 2004-12-02 03:03, Rob van Berkel wrote:
On 2004-12-01 07:53, Music Manic wrote:
Heard Prescott CPU's are superior for music.
Do they sound better?

It adds more warmth to the bits

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:49 pm

my new pentium 4 sounded less noisy than P3.
I think it helps with clocking.

Rob van Berkel · Post by **Rob van Berkel** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:59 pm

On 2004-12-02 13:49, Music Manic wrote:
my new pentium 4 sounded less noisy than P3.

Must be the low noise fan that comes with the P4

Seriously, I've never heard any difference between any of the CPU's I used with my boards. Maybe it's the sequencer-software in use that adjust to more CPU power, to make things sound better. Well actually it will be the other way around... the software degrades when it detects less CPU-power.
I've used Logic+Scope on P3, first gen P4 and now on my northwood - it all sounded alike.
Would that auto-quality-adjust when low on CPU power be possible at all??

Cheers
Rob

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