Motherboard + RAM question

smack

Hi all,

I'm buying this motherboard of komplett

EPoX EP-4PCA3+ Mainboard for S478/800mhz I875P, ATA/S-ATA, ATX, GbLAN,

and am wondering if i am buying the right ram.

I am going to buy one of these

Corsair Value S. PC2700 DDR-DIMM 512MB Unbuffered, Non-parity, 64Megx64, CL2.5

or am i wrong and i should be buying 2 x 256mb dimms

TacT

no need for a new thread, put it in the one you already started? Your Pc will not run with pc2700 DDR 333MHZ effective ram as you have an 800MHZ FSB chip so you need ddr 400 giving you an effective 800MHZ FSB. If you're interested in overclocking you might want to consider some even faster ram, will you be overclocking?

http://www.shop4memory.com/products/ddr-ram.asp - anything there that suits your price will do nicely providing it's ddr400 pc3200 rated. I'd go for the OCZ/Geil/Mushkin/Corsair personally - The board supports dual channel ddr ram so make sure you get that too.

smack

ok the board supports:

a maximum of 4GB of PC2700/3200 DDR RAM (ECC included)

all i want is 512mb+ ram for between 100+150euro

please point me at the right one, cos i am a little lost now

smack

this is the one i think i want

512Mb DDR RAM PC3200 184 pins - GeIL Value GE5123200B
DDR400 module, 184 pins, 400Mhz, CAS2.5, double-sided

smack

can anyone verify if that is correct

OfflerCrocGod

Yep dude that will do no prob.

unkel

Yes will be fine if you plan not to overclock. The whole point in getting a Pentium 4 system is to overclock though. If you do plan to overclock, get PC4000 or better instead

If you don't intend to overclock, get an amd64 system...