Thread: ordered my new computer

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Hi Matt,
What is the speed advantage of the 6000? Is it a duocore 6000+? I looked at that but chose the low wattage 5800+ to run cooler. How are you going to cool the 6000+? I maxed out the memory slots in my MSI motherboard to 4 Gb. My motherboard will accept 2Gb sticks if all the sticks are the same but I stayed with the economy idea and used the lower frequency 667 MHz 1Gb sticks. The 1 Gb memory sticks I got were about $25 each so depending on how many slots you have you can upgrade the memory. I talked to an engineer at MSI and he said the cheaper 667 memory chips are not at a disadvantage once you get more than one stick. The first stick should be the 800 MHz if it is the only one but if you have more than 1 Gb you can use the cheaper 667 MHz without a loss of speed since the extra memory reduces swapping.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder