A7N8X-E Deluxe What Kind of Memory?

[meatbomb]

Hi guys

I'm planning on purchasing an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ and I don't plan to overclock. What kind of memory shoud I get to get the most out of the system? Should I buy 2 DIMM's? Or a single stick? How about PC3200 over PC2700?

Meatbomb

 

[mechBgon]

Two or three DIMMs of PC2700 or PC3200, but make sure to run it sync'ed to the CPU's bus speed. The performance drop of using your 2500+ with the RAM running out-of-sync at PC3200 instead of PC2700 can be very big... I lost about 20% of my UT2003 Demo framerates on the Botmatch score. So you want your memory locked to 100% of CPU bus speed in the BIOS.