Keith Willcocks wrote:
> My son is contemplating purchasing this mobo:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/32bgjr
>
> and this processor
>
> http://tinyurl.com/38smrm
>
> Can some kind person confirm that, although the processor is 64 bit, it will
> still happily run 32 bit Windows XP?
>
> Also, the mobo states that it runs PC2 PC3200 DDR II SDRAM and above. His
> old memory is PC2100, are we right in thinking that the new mobo will still
> run it but suffer a bit on the speed side? I am a bit baffled by the PC2,
> I have not come across that before?
>
> Many thanks.
>
I have had trouble with different types of RAM on the 64 bit processors.
An Athlon 64 machine I built only worked good after I changed to
overclocking RAM whereas that same RAM messed up an Intel Dual Core
Machine which ran better with regular DDR RAM.