a current "state of the art" PC would be (if you want a single CPU system):

The fastest P4 CPU at 533mhz bus (133x4) + ASUS mobo (I still couldn't trust
Gigabyte) with pair of PC1066 RAMBUS RAM + nVidia Geforce4 Ti4600 video +
ultra 160 SCSI card & 15000rpm SCSI HDDs.

for dual CPU system:

Dual AMD MP 2000+ with fastest possible DDR RAM + Geforce4 Ti4600 + ultra
320 SCSI (64bit PCI) card and 15000rpm SCSI HDDs.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen K. Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New PC Specifications


> I am considering building/having built a new "state-of-the-art" PC.  I
> notice that the latest Intel Pentium 4 has a front side bus speed of 533
> Mhz.  However, the fastest DDR memory now available is 400 Mhz.  Is there
> any advantage to having the memory speed and front side bus speed the
same?
> or are these two "speeds" irrelevant to each other?

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