2500+ check, pc3200LL XMS check, PSu Check, case check...mobo?

[mooteh]

Cool. Thanks for the info on the ram
I decided to go with low latency ram for the heck of it. The set up I have planned is as follows:

Barton 2500+ Retail (best bang for the buck CPU it seems)
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR (running an older KT266 MSI board and i like how it's been very stable)
2x KINGSTON HyperX PC3200 512MB (MSI recommends Kingston ram so.. and it was cheaper than corsair)

I also picked up a couple of Western Digital Raptor SATA drives that I plan on running in RAID 0 or whatever.

With all this said, I am now contemplating whether or not to upgrade my PSU as well. Currently I have a 350W and I don't know if that would be enough to run everything stated above plus a Radeon 9500 Pro, 2 IDE Hard drives, CDRW, DVD-Rom, TV Card, and 3 Fans. I also plan on overclocking the CPU from 333FSB to 400FSB to match the ram. Anybody know if my current 350W PSU would be able to handle all this or should I play it safe and order a 500W PSU as well?

 

[pspada]

Plenty of folks around here claiming the HyperX is crummy memory.

 

[krypptic]

Don't get the hyperX with the msi delta. Its a 50/50 shot with compatibility. Do to the msi website, and go to the Forums. In the Nvidia section there is a sticky with lots of people's posts on what ram works with the board and what doesn't. I had hyperX and had to rma it. Some say the pc35oo hyperX works, but I went with the sure thing in the twinx pc3200 LL. Just a sugestion, but definitely check out the forum if you are getting a k7n2.

 

[mooteh]

Originally posted by: krypptic
Don't get the hyperX with the msi delta. Its a 50/50 shot with compatibility. Do to the msi website, and go to the Forums. In the Nvidia section there is a sticky with lots of people's posts on what ram works with the board and what doesn't. I had hyperX and had to rma it. Some say the pc35oo hyperX works, but I went with the sure thing in the twinx pc3200 LL. Just a sugestion, but definitely check out the forum if you are getting a k7n2.

Well.. it took awhile.. after about 1029819028 BSODs and numerous reinstallations of WinXP, I finally managed to get my 2 Raptors working in RAID 0 Array on the MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR motherboard with the Barton 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ specs via 400FSB and slight increase in CPU voltage. At first it kept crashing while trying to install windows, and when I finally got windows to install, it would crash again while installing the Nforce2 drivers. But somehow I managed to get past all that and now the system is running fine on a pair of Kingston HyperX PC3200 low latency 512mb memory modules. Well everything's running good EXCEPT this ram doesn't seem to want to work in dual channel DDR mode. It works fine in single channel but it would fail to post in dual channel mode in the overclocked settings. It seems to boot fine however when the CPU is not overclocked and the ram is underclocked to match the stock 333FSB of the cpu. weird..... oh well would I be missing out on much if I am to keep it in single channel mode versus dual channel? I'd hate to go through the whole RMA process just for this...... even though it does seem like being unable to run the ram in dual channel DDR mode kind of defeats the whole purpose of the whole Nforce2 ordeal...

 

[mooteh]

well... got dual channel mode to work some how (dimm 2 and 3 ) but didn't see much of a difference in benchmark and CPUZ says it's still in single channel mode =/