oscar_anth Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Hello I´m Making my first PC and I need help to select the right memory to it, my system is: OS: Windows XP professional ( Should I change to 64 bits edition?) Precessor: Intel Pentium D945 (3.4 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2x2 MB L2 Cache) MB: Asus P5WD2 Premium HD: WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR 74 GB SATA 10.000 RPM Optical : LG DVDRW 16x GSA-H10A oem Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2-430W Video card: I haven´t buy the video card already I work with these programs: - Solidworks 2006 -Autocad 2006 -Algor FEA 2003 -Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 - emule & Bitcomet So I need excellent performance especially with Solidworks, and at the same time I need to be able to use Autocad, the web browser and some P2P, and obviously listen music, I have plained to buy 2 GB of Corsair 1GB DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Pro, but i wanted to ask first, my MB manual says it upports 8 Gb of DDR2 Native 800 Mhz, so Should I buy these or you recomend other Corsair Memory? The Video Card it´s not defined yet, but I want to buy some of 512 Mb, I Hope an Nvdia Quadro FX 450 PLease answer soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJLeong65 Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Hello I´m Making my first PC and I need help to select the right memory to it, my system is: OS: Windows XP professional ( Should I change to 64 bits edition?) Precessor: Intel Pentium D945 (3.4 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2x2 MB L2 Cache) MB: Asus P5WD2 Premium HD: WESTERN DIGITAL RAPTOR 74 GB SATA 10.000 RPM Optical : LG DVDRW 16x GSA-H10A oem Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2-430W Video card: I haven´t buy the video card already I work with these programs: - Solidworks 2006 -Autocad 2006 -Algor FEA 2003 -Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 - emule & Bitcomet So I need excellent performance especially with Solidworks, and at the same time I need to be able to use Autocad, the web browser and some P2P, and obviously listen music, I have plained to buy 2 GB of Corsair 1GB DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Pro, but i wanted to ask first, my MB manual says it upports 8 Gb of DDR2 Native 800 Mhz, so Should I buy these or you recomend other Corsair Memory? The Video Card it´s not defined yet, but I want to buy some of 512 Mb, I Hope an Nvdia Quadro FX 450 PLease answer soon Unfortunately, due to the limitation of the Intel chipsets' memory controller, you will only be able to use DDR2-667 memory with an 800MHz FSB CPU. You will need a CPU with a 1.06GHz FSB in order to run DDR2-800 memory at its rated clockspeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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