Okay, I am at my wits end. I bought 2 160GB Western Digital Harddrives only to find out that my Giga-Byte motherboard model 7XIE won't support them. Granted this is an older MOBO with an Athlon XP proc, but I went ahead and flashed the bios, but since it's old the most current bios update was still from May 2001. This new bios only supports up to 75 GB. So now I am stuck with two 160GB paper weights :swear: So now I am on the mission to get a new motherboard and proc. Something I wanted to do, but just not right now...but such is life :good: So to make a very long story, a whole lot shorter...if I get a new MOBO that has DDR 400 slots, can I still use my old PC133 ram? I did not know if they were backwards compatible or not. I was hoping to not have to buy ram in addition to gettting a new MOBO and PROC. Please, someone shead some good news my way! I am pretty sure I CAN'T use it, but this is the MOBO MOBO I am looking at getting with an AMD 64 bit 2800 processor. http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8M_Neo-V&class=mb
Don't get that motherboard. It's socket 754 which will have no future upgradeability in the future, so it would be a very bad choice for processor selection, and future. You won't be able to use pc133 on any new motherboards. Sorry to hear that about your new hard drives
This has already been mentioned more or less, but if you're looking for the most expandability in a motherboard, going with a Socket 754 isn't going to be the way to go. That's AMD's budget platform, so if you'd like to jump to dual-channel DDR, you'd have to buy a new motherboard. If you don't think you'll upgrade soon enough for this to be an issue, go for it. 2.)Unfortunately, while your SDRAM and DDR are both SDRAM, the slots for regular SDR and DDR SDRAM are different and you will have to purchase some new RAM. You can easily find a stick of 512MB of PC3200 (DDR400) for under $100 on-line, so it's not terrible.
