I have a question: 

Was PC133 SDRAM ever made in a 1gb stick?  If so, then I have something to scrounge for sometime down the line, if not, then I won't waste my time looking.

I concur with exxe.  After a quick search on ebay there aren't many non-ecc 1gb auctions vs ecc auctions.
Good luck in your search!

Tim wrote on 27.08.10 at 20:32:07:


Not one, but three GB of RAM. I tested it and it works on Abit KT7-a V1.3, though only in 100Mhz mode even if the RAM itself is 133mhz certified. No amount of tinkering helped so I placed 3x512mb that worked at 145mhz.

RAM is always good to have - you can profit out of it also in DOS - just create RAMdrive and enjoy an ultra-fast disk drive

You'd use it for gaming?? Sorry, but on that kind of rig, there is no way you would need 3GB of ram for gaming.

1st of all, gaming is done on the videocard mostly, and if you set the resolution and other options so high that it needs more then the 128MB the Ti4200 has, then yer probably gonna be looking at a fast forward slideshow.

The ram would come in handy if you were to decide to run rendering programs, that can actually make use of that amount, but for gaming....

But I do agree with you on the fact that more ram is always welcome, the only time I've seen the more ram being a problem was last with win98, where more then 512MB could actually start generating errors, cause 98 couldn't handle it.

Socket 423 or 478 ?

ultima wrote on 28.08.10 at 14:04:58:


Willamette found it's way on to 478 as well for a short time before northwood had been introduced onto the market. Intel moved to 478 to reduced manufacturing costs while moving back to SDR ram till they could get their first DDR chipset rolled out once the agreement with Rambus had expired. 423 was over all a failure sure it had good bandwidth performance but the ram it's self had terrible timings (40ns) which was 4 times that of SDR. It gave the cpu 3.2gb/s for every 100mhz clock and was a match for the performance of the fsb. However after losses 2.7gb/s was common depending on the quality of the board. Socket 370 and 478 had limited RDRAM support such as the 820 and the 850/855 but they were short lived. 604 maintained support for a few years. Back to the p4, first gen sucked performance wise due to the fpu. A 1.3ghz p4 had the performance of a 800mhz p3 in most apps and games. The p4 wasn't a all the way upgrade till it had hit 1.8ghz to make up for the losses. So that is why the 1.4ghz p3 was popular in many areas from servers to gaming rigs at that time. Hell I got a p3 still rocking down stares.

Ok to answer earlier questions:  my cpu is a socket 478 mPGA with:
Data Cache L1 :8 KB

Trace Cache L1 :12 Kµops
Cache L2 :      256 KB


as for a extra P4 cpu, I'm not sure of the manufacturer of my board but it is an Intel D845HV with an Intel i845chipset.  And what do you want for it/them?  I'm kinda broke at the moment....but I could probably come up with something.

Sent you a detailed PM.  Be warned, it's pretty verbose.  lol