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Chipset and Memory: Quantity or Quality?

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OrangeDoor

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My friend has hired me to build computers which I do as a hobby. I had been building AMD machines but because there isn't really a budget here, just a need for speed and stability, I'm going with Intel, with who I'm not as familiar. I am wondering which chipset would be best under Intel. She will be doing mostly office app's (she works for Macromedia) on it but wants her games to look as pretty as possible, she will also be ripping LOTS of music and burning cd's regularly. Would it be better to go with 512mb of PC1066 RDram or 1 gig of DDR333? Even though there isn't much of a budget, I am reluctant to spend many hundreds more for r-dram, especially if I get better performance with more but cheaper DDR. If there was a stable new mobo with the SiS 648 it'd be a no brainer, too bad the 845G or the 850 don't have AGP 8x support, and too bad there aren't any Via chipsets on nice mobo's. Any help/advice/recommendations will be appreciated.

NOTES: This machine will need to dual boot Linux for testing purposes, dunno if there are any hardware issues i'm not considering. I am considering Gigabyte's Mobo's and a G4 4200 (enough for now but a good value, she'll upgrade to a new ATI or the nv3x later)

Thanks ahead of time!
 
Would it be possible to use DDR400 ram on a DDR333 board without overclocking and then trying to bring it up to speed? Seems like the architecture of the board may not allow it, too much interference between the modules.
 
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