Want to Max machine out with RAM what's best for this config

thedesigntribe

Hi all,

I have 2 Ram chips (Corsair Value S. PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB) on my motherboard (MSI K8N NEO Platinum Edition S754).

My motherboard manual tells me it supports:
1. Supports Single Memory channel, DDR 400/333/266 without ECC support
2. Supports memory sizes up to 3GB (for DDR333/266) / 2GB (for DDR400)

I have ONE free slot and want to max my machine out with RAM. What should I buy - I'm a bit lost in the spec here?

PC3200 DDR RAM = DDR400, is this correct?

Can anyone help me pick correctly from this http://www.shop4memory.com/products/ddr-ram.asp

Cheers

Optikus

PC3200 is DDR400... i reccommend that you buy an identical stick of the two you already own.

ARGINITE

I concur, unless you want to buy 2gb of pc3200 (1gb stick*2) and get rid of what you have already.

thedesigntribe

Why wouldn't you guys recommend just buying a 1GB stick and putting it in with the two existing 512mb sticks?

An additional '1Gb DDR PC3200 Value CAS2.5 Dual Channel kit-GeIL' cost €123.97

Were as buying 2GB will cost €273:
2Gb DDR PC3200 Value CAS3 Dual Channel kit - GeIL cost € 273.55

jozi

2gb of ram wtf?
Do you need it ?if so they fire ahead and buy ram going by whats adviced here.
I have a gig of ram and i dont get near using it all with a few programs running in the back ground and playing ut2k4

astrofool

afaik, that board runs at ddr333 speeds with all the ram slots filled.

thedesigntribe

jozi wrote:

2gb of ram wtf?
Do you need it ?if so they fire ahead and buy ram going by whats adviced here.
I have a gig of ram and i dont get near using it all with a few programs running in the back ground and playing ut2k4

Graphic work - esp. for print is RAMMMM hungry

jozi

thedesigntribe wrote:

Graphic work - esp. for print is RAMMMM hungry

Ok learn something every day

I would go with pc3200 (DDR400) and get whats needed to max out the amount of ram possible.

Jozi

thedesigntribe

So I'm good to go with this? you think?

'1Gb DDR PC3200 Value CAS2.5 Dual Channel kit-GeIL' cost €123.97'
http://www.shop4memory.com/products/ddr-ram.asp

po0k

jozi wrote:

2gb of ram wtf?
Do you need it ?if so they fire ahead and buy ram going by whats adviced here.
I have a gig of ram and i dont get near using it all with a few programs running in the back ground and playing ut2k4

You can never have too much ram.

Unless you've got 32-bit mem addressing and 4Gig physical...leaving you with no address space for AGP range etc.

po0k

thedesigntribe wrote:

So I'm good to go with this? you think?

'1Gb DDR PC3200 Value CAS2.5 Dual Channel kit-GeIL' cost €123.97'
http://www.shop4memory.com/products/ddr-ram.asp

That's 2x 512Meg sticks, not 1x 1Gig