noob question about mobo's and ram
 

Hi there!

I would like to buy a athlon cpu (like 1800 mhz aprox) with a cheap but good mobo. The point is, I don't want to buy new ram. Will I be able to find a mobo that can use the old ram modules that are in a Pentium 2 pc?

I dont know for sure what type is in that P2, its not for me, I want to give this to someone for a present.

I see those athlon motherboards use DDR ram? i guess thats not the ram a P2 use? and I guess you cant get athlon mobo's using SDRam?

i dont want to sound 'pedantic'

but

LN2548 128Mb PC2100 (PC266) DDR Memory Branded 12.95 15.22



from scan.co.uk

surely you can afford another 15 quid for the memory?

I agree with JJ. Athlon XP + DDR is teh good.

EDIT - What is your budget anyway?

/me points at the Hardware & Tech support forum

The mods here are shocking!

Re: noob question about mobo's and ram
 

ASRock creates such MB's
http://www.asrock.com/product/amd/index.htm

They are ATX/micro-atx format - i hope you dont want baby-at boards ;)

I think most people would argue that it doesnt make much sense to slow down a XP 1800 with SDRAM, you should really consider the slightly higher cost for a better board and some RAM :)