Memory for Asus K8V Deluxe Socket 754?

[brett1]

I'm upgrading my system to an Athlon64 3000+ with Asus K8V along with a new Radeon 9700 Pro and I need some new RAM. My powersupply is a 430W Enermax whisper. I use a lot of photoshop and play games, so I need 1 gig.

The mobo has color coded slots for dual channel so I'm assuming I might as well buy a 'matched pair' of whatever type of RAM I buy...mwave.com has a matched pair listed for 2 dollars less than buying 2 singles anyway.

I don't plan on overclocking anything in the system. I understand that Crucial and Kingston both have lifetime guarantees now....

HOWEVER....I am very familiar with the attitude that "Yea, I can throw a turd in a box and mark it guaranteed and it will do exactly what it says."

I currently have been using Crucial for years now and have had two RMAs (which was actually not a bad experience.) I've heard that Kingston makes better RAM...

What RAM should I buy? Will HyperX 2x512 Kingston DDR400 suffice?

 

[brett1]

Anyone have recommendations?

 

[Markfw]

I can only vouch for what I have and NFS4, Kingston Hyperx PC3500 C2. $116 at newegg last I looked. I have run it at high as 220 mhz C2, and it works fine unless you are running graphics, then the Radeon 9700 pro doesn't like the AGP speed. (about 75)

 

[Viper96720]

Just to let you know AMD 64 is single channel memory controller on the cpu. You would have to get a AMD FX-51 or Opteron if you wanted dual channel.
This may help when selecting memory and setting the bios

 

[brett1]

Thanks guys! Now to determine whether to pay 40 extra dollars for a 9800pro instead of a 9700pro...