DDR2 533 or DDR2 800 ? and HDD ?

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Is there a noticable difference in the speed of DDR2 533 and DDR2 800? Is it worth paying more for the DDR2 800 or not really?

Also if i take the hard drives out of my computer and put them in a totally different comptuer, with a different cpu, motherboard, ram, power supply, will they still work just fine?
 
Yes there is a noticable difference but how much depends on the CPU/memory controller.

The hard drives will still work. If you want to boot off them it's hit and miss with windows.
 
Many now are sticking with DDR2 667 rather then jumping at DDR2 800 for ocing where the fsb is lowered. Cromewell touched on both items with cpu and memory controller with the model cpu and what that supports being the most important on a stock machine. To run either memory or cpu with the fsb at the highest setting you need the cpu along with the correct memory both or you are stuck at the lower fsb.

With a large swap out or placed in a totally different build you always have to plan on at least a repair install of XP for the large differences there. The hard drives themselves remain the same unless you are taking an ide drive to run on a strictly Sata board. That's a board with only one not two ide controllers meant for running one or two optical drives. On that type of board sata rules while those with two ide controllers see ide as the default.
 
Pc_Pimp said:
Well is the speed difference worth the extra in price? or not really.
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It depends. I personally would at least get DDR2 667. Then, if getting DDR2 800 causes you to cut back on other vital components, forget it. Money to spare? Go right ahead with the DDR2 800, especially if you are going to be overclocking.
 
One classic example of not going with the fastest supported memory was seen on AMD Socket A boards with DDR400 PC3200 memory. Besides the rare and only for prebuilt systems Atholon XP3400+ the XP3200+ was the only other one out of the Atholon XP line of cpus that would run with a fsb of 400mhz. The lower models ran DDR333 or even slower with DDR266 for the XP line. The earlier Atholon models saw either 133 or 166mhz.
 
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