Hi yall,

I'm new to the whole AMD thing as I am in the process of upgrading to an AMD based system. My question is and please don't laugh . Will the XP 2500+ (borton) run with ddr400? I know the proc runs on a 333fsb however will the ram underclock (sorta speek) to that speed and maintain stability.

Thanks for all your help out there, much apreciated.




Soon to be system spec:
AMD XP 2500+ (barton)
512megs ddr400 (pc3200 I believe)
MSI Kt6 Delta LSR
Geforce4 ti4200
SB live 5.1
maxtor d740x 40gig 7200rpm
samsung 40 gig7200rpm

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System Includes:

AMD XP2500+ (Barton)
MSI KT6 Delta LSR
512meg DDR400
MSI Geforce4 ti4200
SB live 5.1
Maxtor d740x 40gig
Samsung 40gig 7200rpm

I'm not laughing, up until this week I was happily running an xp 1800 chip with no intentions of upgrading until my system died. (another story ) In any case, I recently bought a barton xp 2600 chip sitting comfortably on an abit kd7a board. When I contacted AMD tech support, the person I spoke to said that ddr 2700 was fine, which is what I ordered to replace the ddr 2100 I'm running now. The new chip I bought is a 512 meg as opposed to the two 256 - ddr 2100 I was running. From what I was told, the faster memory is great, but for my budget I will be doing fine with the 2700.

Good luck on your new system

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Athlon xp 2600 barton/ abit KD7A / 512 cruicial ddr 3200 / twin 40 gig - 7200 rpm drives (one for storage) / burner rom / Sound blaster live/ ATI Radion 9100 / Logitech Z-640
nuthin fancy but it gets me there

kewl so the ddr400 will work..... I was worried cuz I'm currently using pc133 type ram with my P3 1ghz and have no experience with ddr... I hope this upgrade is worth it.....lol

Thanks for the info.

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System Includes:

AMD XP2500+ (Barton)
MSI KT6 Delta LSR
512meg DDR400
MSI Geforce4 ti4200
SB live 5.1
Maxtor d740x 40gig
Samsung 40gig 7200rpm

Yeah thats a good question. And like teknutz said you can. Just make sure you have a motherboard that supports it. What are you planning to get?

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*Soyo Dragon KT-400 Ultra Black Edition * AMD Athlon XP 2600 333 FSB @ 2.25Ghz 12.5x190 * 1 Gb-2x Kingston 512 Mb PC-2700 DDR-SDRAM * Asylum GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB 302/532 Mhz * Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer * Wester Digital 80 GB Hard drive 7200 RPM with 8 MB cache * Enlight 72500AZ w/ 2 80mm case fans * 17" Compaq CRT * JBL Platinum 2.0 monitor mount set</span

Memory is always backwards compatible within a memory family so DDR400 will run at 400 Mhz or 333 MHz w/o any problems.

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If only they knew...

I put my order in for the MSI kt6 Delta LSR based on the kt6oo chip from VIA, should be in on monday. Its a cheap mobo with a few bells and whistles but should do the trick.

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System Includes:

AMD XP2500+ (Barton)
MSI KT6 Delta LSR
512meg DDR400
MSI Geforce4 ti4200
SB live 5.1
Maxtor d740x 40gig
Samsung 40gig 7200rpm

I only got the KT400, so to me thats a good mobo .

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*Soyo Dragon KT-400 Ultra Black Edition * AMD Athlon XP 2600 333 FSB @ 2.25Ghz 12.5x190 * 1 Gb-2x Kingston 512 Mb PC-2700 DDR-SDRAM * Asylum GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 MB 302/532 Mhz * Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer * Wester Digital 80 GB Hard drive 7200 RPM with 8 MB cache * Enlight 72500AZ w/ 2 80mm case fans * 17" Compaq CRT * JBL Platinum 2.0 monitor mount set</span

Thanks for the info BEENTHERE. I wasnt sure if my choice of ram would have worked with the cpu.

Thanks again

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System Includes:

AMD XP2500+ (Barton)
MSI KT6 Delta LSR
512meg DDR400
MSI Geforce4 ti4200
SB live 5.1
Maxtor d740x 40gig
Samsung 40gig 7200rpm