Can the Athlon XP utilize DDR333

This seems to be a ‘HOT’ topic in the Legion Hardware forums at the moment, as many members are asking if DDR333 is the way to go with their new AMD Athlon XP system. People want to know whether DDR333 chipsets are the way to go and what they have to offer in the way of performance over the DDR266 chipsets. However I feel the question should not be asking whether or not the chipsets can provide the performance, but more can the Athlon XP utilize DDR333? I am aware the majority of you have figured out this answer by now, however there still seems to be quite a few still a little confused to why DDR333 hasn’t brought a huge performance boost to their new systems. This isn’t going to be a long article exploring the XP processor and its chipsets, instead I’m going to take one XP processor along with one KT333 chipset and run a few tests. Obviously we will be looking for the performance difference between DDR266 and DDR333 to see how efficiently the AMD Athlon XP processor utilizes the memory bandwidth.