Apogee mobo & ram

[Steg]

I was reading the VIA info of there KT400 chipset (http://www.viatech.com/en/apollo/kt400.jsp) before i buy a Chaintech Apogee (KT400) and nowhere! and i mean nowhere on that page does it mention 400mhz RAM! so does this chipset/mobo actually support it? The mobo site (http://www.chaintech.com.tw/eng/products/SOCKA/7VJL-Deluxe.asp)even says DDR 333 some places and DDR3200 (400) in others? what do i believe? Does anyone no if i can run DDR 3200 (400) RAM on a Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe APOGEE™?
cheers

Steg

 

[Th3M1ghtyD8]

Originally posted by Steg
I was reading the VIA info of there KT400 chipset (http://www.viatech.com/en/apollo/kt400.jsp) before i buy a Chaintech Apogee (KT400) and nowhere! and i mean nowhere on that page does it mention 400mhz RAM! so does this chipset/mobo actually support it? The mobo site (http://www.chaintech.com.tw/eng/products/SOCKA/7VJL-Deluxe.asp)even says DDR 333 some places and DDR3200 (400) in others? what do i believe? Does anyone no if i can run DDR 3200 (400) RAM on a Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe APOGEE™?
cheers

All KT400 chipsets support DDR400 AFAIK, but there is no real point of running your memory at 400MHz on a KT400 based board, as you will probably end up with a performance loss of about 10% as opposed to using 333Mhz memory. The new KT400A Chipset addresses this issue, so you may be better off waiting for a newer board.

 

[Steg]

so (i need to buy soon as in today....) would DDR 333 ram be a better choise? instead of DDR 400 CAS 3 ram would DDR 333 CAS 2 corsair ram be better?

Steg

 

[Arris]

Yes. The performance would be better on the DDR 333 Cas 2, unless you plan on huge overclocking then the DDR 400 has little use. Even more so if your running a 333fsb CPU.

*looks sadly at the PC3500 ram he bought for overclocking then found his 9700Pro didn't like non-standard AGP speeds*

 

[Steg]

Ok - well it seems my pay will not be coming in for atleast another week....so how long will it be before the first KT400A boards come out? and by then i could probebly afford DDR 400 CAS 2 ram....weee mega fast!

Steg

 

[gsgleason]

FSB speed?

on the same board, I want to know if it actually does supports processor FSB os 333MHz. some places say it does, and some say it doesn't.