ok i guess i just dont want to drop the $$$ on 2GB of RAM only to find out it's flakey. RAM has been the least reliable/stable item in the last two systems I've built and they were both Asus boards (A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 and this A8N-SLI Premium) and they were both high quality sets of RAM. Frustrating and don't want to repeat that, especially jumping up to 2GB.
It doesn't have to OC, though I did OC this 3200+ Venice to 3800+ speeds previously without a problem. I really don't need that though, and don't currently have it OC'd (the board is weird and it was affecting other hardware negatively so I had to remove the OC).
Maybe it's just the board is a POS and I should build a new system instead of spending money on this one...