"legion" wrote in message
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Ok so this is what I thought;
as long as you had - mobo, cpu, and ram that had the same fsb speed they
would all run that speed

now I am hearing that it is an issue of overclocking and modifing ratios
and
multipliers

my question is; I now have an ABIT NF7-S (unsure which version, although
the
seller advertised a 400mhz fsb board speed

I would like to utilize this speed, and have not yet selected any ram or a
CPU.

There does seem to be a price difference between the 333mhz fsb cpu/ram
and
the 400mhz equilivents. How much of a performance boost would I really
get
in a non-hardcore enviroment.
(I do tend to have many, many operations going at once however, even if I
am
not playing doom iii)



There won't be much of a performance difference at all. If you have to make
a compromise, try a 333FSB processor with 400FSB RAM. The reasoning is that
it is somewhat more likely that you can use DDR400 RAM on your next upgrade,
and you won't pay that much more for DDR400 RAM, which will run just fine
with a 333FSB processor. -Dave