Memory for MSI Neo2

[Er0si0n]

I was curious about what the best memory that the neo2 for Athlon 64's can support. On the specs it says up to DDR400, but it seems that I have read posts about people going to use DDR500 and such. So what is the highest, and if DDR400 is the highest, what is the best PC3200 memory to get.

Thanks for the help.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

wel you can use whatever memory you want but by default it will clock it to 400mhz, DDR400 which is your fsb of 200mhz x 2(that is just how they do it don't as why). if you overclock your FSB to say 250 that woudl be ddr500, I doubt you will be able to do so but is a distict possibility. The A64's are not too reliant on latencies of ram because the controller in on the cpu so the faster the fsb the better on the A64's.
personally I woudl suggest OCZ 3700 EB if you are going to overclock. the EB is for enhanced bandwidth, it is great memory though a little expensive. If you look at some of the anandtech reviews for ram it oveclocks as good as many pc4000 and pc4200 sticks of ram and has great bandwidth at lower speeds such as pc3200 without very tight timings.
If you are not going to overclock at all then I woud suggest getting OCZ 3200 EB as it runs with slightly tighter timings and will be less expensive.