hansraj
In the zone
hardware experts please help me out.... i have a KOB P4M266 NDFSMx mercury motherboard and the rest of the config is
P4 1.7 GHz(784 pin)
512 Mb DDR + 256 Mb DDR both 333 MHz
40 Gb 5200 Rpm seagate hard disk
now my bottleneck (rather chicken neck) is 100 Mhz FSB limitation because iam not able to find any difference even after adding the 512 mb ram card over the existing 256 mb ram. so i have decided to upgrade the motherboard so that i get somewhere 800 Mhz FSB speed.... but i have some doubts. iam planning for a 945 based chipset which has PCI EXP slot + support for sata and ide hard disk. But my worries are
1. Does the 945 chipset based motherboard supports 784 pin p4 1.7 ?
2. Can i use my 333 Mhz ram cards in that motherboard without any problem?
3. Is the FSB limitation of 100 Mhz FSB due to the motherboard or the processer itself ?
or other than the above is there any other alternative which can give me better performance with the existing config............... actuall iam dying to play EMPIRE EARTH II which is running so slow that i get nothing other than frustration.... i dont want to spend money on graphics card for this motherboard... if at all i have to i want to go for PCI EXP with the new motherboard only......... please help me.......
P4 1.7 GHz(784 pin)
512 Mb DDR + 256 Mb DDR both 333 MHz
40 Gb 5200 Rpm seagate hard disk
now my bottleneck (rather chicken neck) is 100 Mhz FSB limitation because iam not able to find any difference even after adding the 512 mb ram card over the existing 256 mb ram. so i have decided to upgrade the motherboard so that i get somewhere 800 Mhz FSB speed.... but i have some doubts. iam planning for a 945 based chipset which has PCI EXP slot + support for sata and ide hard disk. But my worries are
1. Does the 945 chipset based motherboard supports 784 pin p4 1.7 ?
2. Can i use my 333 Mhz ram cards in that motherboard without any problem?
3. Is the FSB limitation of 100 Mhz FSB due to the motherboard or the processer itself ?
or other than the above is there any other alternative which can give me better performance with the existing config............... actuall iam dying to play EMPIRE EARTH II which is running so slow that i get nothing other than frustration.... i dont want to spend money on graphics card for this motherboard... if at all i have to i want to go for PCI EXP with the new motherboard only......... please help me.......