Re: 2 Gigabyte ddr2 memory modules for P5K WS

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:45:07 -0500, Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

soinie@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm in the process of putting this board, P5K WS, together and want to
buy all 8 gigs for the board now. I'm checking Crucial and Mushkin,
any suggestions as to speed and brand? Crucial has a nice chart that
suggests the memory modules, and two speeds were listed, 5300 and
6400. How much faster will the 6400 be in terms of actually
perceiving the increase in speed? I'm also thinking of the Core 2 Duo
E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz 4M shared L2 Cache. Would that be a good choice?
I've done a little research but probably not enough to make a
thoroughly educated guess in picking the best processor. I picked the
P5K because it has a serial port and I need one for an old Wacom
tablet, and it appears to be pretty stable with 8 gigs of memory.
Thanks

8GB is a lot of memory. The more memory, the more chance for an
error to creep in. Is an error free memory extremely important,
or is this just a gaming machine, where a crash or other fault
just means a reboot ?

It is possible to get ECC protection for memory products, but
this requires chipset and motherboard support. It skews the whole
selection process for motherboards. So it is not something to be
taken lightly.

It is pretty hard to guess about the processor as well. There
are dual core and quad cores, at prices stretching from the
$280 level, to $1345. What level of performance do you really
need ? What kind of tasks do you carry out ? A popular processor
with gamers, is the Q6600, a quad at 2.4GHz that easily overclocks
to 3GHz (G0 stepping is best). The E6850 is about the same
price as the Q6600.

I guess I'm trying to figure out whether you really need a
"workstation" or "server" class motherboard, or whether
your application looks more like a desktop. Some Asus motherboards
don't have a serial port on the back, but they do have a 20 pin
header for connection of a serial port bracket. It is also possible
to get PCI cards with serial ports on them, so a solution can be
achieved that way as well.

A motherboard like the Maximus Formula, with X38 chipset and
support for DDR2 memory with ECC protection, is the basis of a
good computing solution. It doesn't have a PCI-X slot, but does
have two large PCI Express slots. There is no serial port. So
that would be an example of a board covering computing requirements -
you can even use a new 45nm processor if you want (this one is
a 3GHz quad, a lot more money than the Q6600, but doesn't require
overclocking to get to 3GHz):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115035

Asus has a CPU Support page, where you can look up what boards
can support a given processor:

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpu_support_right_master.aspx?type=0&;
name=Core%202%20Extreme%20QX9650%20(3.00GHz%2C1333FSB%2CL2%3A2X6MB%2Crev.C0%2C4%20cores)&SLanguage=en-us

Paul

This is being built for Photo and video editing, not a gaming machine,
and I need a lot of memory so I can do my thing quickly hence the 8
gigs. I'm working on a box with 4 gigs now and it just isn't quite
enough given the size of graphics files I'm working with. And because
of the limited number of PCI slots on the boards these days, I don't
know if I can have an add on serial port card. I know that I want one
slot for a scsi adapter and could easily find something else to fill
the other slot with like a firewire card. I've been thinking of the
x38 chipset, but am I really future proofing a computer, or will I
ultimately be buying a new board in 3 or 4 yrs because other
technology has changed so dramatically that a new board instead of a
new processor is going to make the difference performance wise? What
is your opinion of the P5E WS board? I believe that also has a serial
port and is X38? Thanks very much for the reply.
.

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