Ram Needed for this system

[Zarick]

I need a high quality yet not horribly expensive ram for this. I need 512meg. I was looking at ocz, buffalo, or kingston. Suggestions (like to keep it under 100 bucks)

Shuttle nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU, Model "AN35N-Ultra" -RETAIL
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ " Barton", 333MHz FSB, 512K Cache Processor - Retail
SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON 9800PRO Video Card, 128MB DDR, 256-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP -RETAIL

 

[tad214]

check this forum
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=45

 

[GullyFoyle]

Look for a pair of matched 256's for that motherboard. No need to get anything slower than PC3200.

A few sets (in price, not necessarily quality order):

Corsair
Geil
Kingston
Geil again

 

[Tango57]

Kingston 512 MB PC3200 at Newegg

 

[Zarick]

Anything wrong with Buffalo? I just noticed their pricepoint was pretty low and it had lots of good reviews.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Currently on sale: Kingston (get the dual channel setup)

I don't know anything about Buffalo.

 

[Zarick]

You say get dual channel. Do I need dual channel or is a single chip of 512 worth it?
What about 2700 hyperx. Is that decent ram or am I not gonna see anything out of it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Since you're not using nforce onboard video, 1 - 512 MB stick of PC2700 should work great.