Memory and Motherboard 1

[BrendaJC]

I just found out the pcb version of my a7n8x motherboard is 1.4 Ready to buy newer memory to go with my barton 2800+ and even though my manual says it supports DDR400 because of the revision 1.4 I'm not sure it does. Would I be on the safer side if I purchased a Premium 512MB PC 2700 333MHz 64x64 DDR 184 memory? and if so would I need to buy 2 of these for my board or can I just buy 1 and buy a couple more later on down the line?

 

[pmonett]

Go for DDR400. What can do more can do less, and DDR400 can be run in 333 mode without any problem.
Plus, later on when you get a true DDR400-compatible mainboard and CPU, you won't need to change RAM again.

Pascal.

 

[BrendaJC]

Thanks Pascal :0)

 

[paparazi]

BrendaJC
Yes go PC3200 (I have used Kingston Value and Twinmoss with success on this revision) note* two matching modules will enable dual memory and a slight increase in performance (1/3%) so on this type of mainboard I guess 2x 256/512 is the better choice.
As with all the early Nforce2 motherboards it is advisable to use the latest platform drivers and later bios revisions as a lot of teething problems were irradicated by doing so.
XP driver link:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_4.27

Martin

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