Running Athlon XP with DIMM memory and performance drop...

[vigi_lante]

Hi,

I want to use a processor like Athlon XP 2100+ with my motherboard. This motherboard support 266MHz of Front Side Bus DDR transfer. Athlon XP also runs at 266MHz. But this mobo only have DIMM slots of ram memory (running at 133MHz).

So, I think that I would have a drop in performance, right ? But this drop would affect tasks like processing video too (or playing emulators) ?

Thanks.

[zzyzzx]

This webpage might give you some insight:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=sdrvsddr&page=1

[Faustus]

If you have a mobo that supports an XP 2100+ with non DDR memory it will work (IF the board supports is) but your right it will not be as fast as if you were running DDR memory.

boards that support both are not common, and they will be different dimm slots for each type of memory supported.