What Memory for this board?

[slayer7]

I am looking to get an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe and I was wondering what would be the best memory for the board. I was thinking if 2 Gig if possible and I wanted to know what your opinion is??

 

[Promethply]

Unless you're into extreme overclocking, most PC3200 RAMs would be OK.

although I would recommend 2X sticks of 1GB Corsair XMS RAMs.

 

[slayer7]

Thanks for the reply. I had more or less narrowed it down to Corsair. I take it that run DDR2?

 

[EndGame]

Originally posted by: slayer7
Thanks for the reply. I had more or less narrowed it down to Corsair. I take it that run DDR2?

NONONO 184 pin DDR

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: EndGame

Originally posted by: slayer7
Thanks for the reply. I had more or less narrowed it down to Corsair. I take it that run DDR2?

NONONO 184 pin DDR

Yes, exactly like he said, make sure the RAMs are not DDR2:

All Athlon64 platforms, such as the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe mobo and others require the 184 pin DDR.

 

[Peter]

_Unbuffered_ DDR, to be exact, with or without ECC.

 

[DfiDude]

What does buffered and ecc mean? Sorry for noob question

 

[Peter]

Having just discovered that page, I'm sooo tempted to direct you here, but since you confessed to being a noob I won't

Anyway. Google is your friend ... lots and lots of pages explaining the technology.

 

[slayer7]

Ah I see I have opened a bit of a can of worms with my noob question. Looks like I will have to do a bit more reading before I invest my money.

Thanks for the pointers

 

[Peter]

Not you, DfiDude is the noob

You should see to it that you get a pair of 1-GByte DIMMs, because having fewer DIMMs gives you better speed. Don't overspend on "low latency" DIMMs, just get something with a reasonable price tag from a recognized manufacturer. And once you got them, run memtest (www.memtest.org) to make sure they're OK.

Oh, and you can have 4 GBytes of RAM in socket-939. You need to run a 64-bit OS for this though.

 

[intogamer]

registered ecc crap is mainly for servers and teh socket 940 cpu ecc= error checking correction or something like that.
they are more expensive and you(consumer) don't need it.

are you planning to o/c? do you really need 2gb? are you going to use some stressful programs? Most programs won't benifit over 2gb I think the os can't.

windows 64bit is not needed right now to clearify there are no apps and very few drivers for the 64 bit extension

 

[slayer7]

I was going to try and future proof ;-) by having 2 Gig. As to Overclock maybe at some point however given the speed of my current rig just running the new stuff at stock should seem like a massive difference (Flipping well hope so anyway).

 

[Peter]

intogamer, perfect. Not even a clue what it's about, but you're dead sure it's not needed? What is your point? Besides, I clearly said unbuffered not registered. Follow the link given five posts up.

slayer7, don't buy "future proof" ... by the time you are ready to move on, technology will have taken the next step. Very probably, you're not going to be able to use the RAM you buy now in next year's latest and greatest systems. So if you don't actually need 2 GBytes, you should go with a twin set of 512-MByte single-sided PC3200U DIMMs.

 

[slayer7]

Hmmmm True very good point. I might just stick with one gig after all, I have one Gig in my system at the moment and it seems to work fine if just a bit on the slow side (hence the resion to upgrade). Thanks for all who have taken the time to reply you have all been very helpful.

 

[Peter]

Well if that's unbuffered DDR RAM you got there, and happens to be two identical DIMMs, then you won't have to buy any at all. The Athlon-64 uses any speed grade from PC1600 to PC3200. This platform will squeeze out a LOT more speed from those DIMMs than your previous system, thanks to AMD's "Direct Connect Architecture".

 

[slayer7]

Oh now there's an idea

Thanks for your help Peter