Err how fast a PC boots has nothing to do with performance. I've seen slow ones with single hard drives boot real quick and fast ones boot relatively slowly. For the record my E8400 overclocked to 4GHz running on a P5N32-E SLI and dual 8800 ultras boots slower than my age old AMD Athlon 64 2800+ that is in my media center rig. You can easily run an E8300 with DDR2. The difference between DDR3 and DDR2 on a 333FSB CPU which is not overclocked will be less than 2%. The bandwidth on a C2D is limited by FSB and beyond a certain point, you'd not notice any difference with faster memory. Running 4:5 is slightly faster than running 1:1 but anything more is an overkill.
Last edited by reignofchaos : 24th April 2008 at 01:54.
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