will this work..?

wackydave · 05-21-2006, 01:56 AM

bout to order my pc parts but i am stuck with memory! the board isa MSI KN8 Neo4-f SKT939 nforce4 chipset dual ddr400 and the memory is OCZ Premier dual channel 2×512mb ddr400 pc3200 cl2.5-3-3-7. will they work together.? all this is on ebuyer.com. thanks

PC eye · 05-21-2006, 02:04 AM

OCZ is an excellent brand of memory. MSI is also a great brand to go with for boards and video cards as well. If you are planning a gaming machine you might want to boost the memory up to 2gb there. Have you decided on a video card at this point? If you stiil have doubts about memory after you could also go with Kingston or Corsair PC3200 dimms.

LITHIUM · 05-21-2006, 05:10 AM

ya i agree...i would go with Corsair instead

PC eye · 05-21-2006, 05:34 AM

I kind of give Kingston and OCZ the edge over Corsair for reliability. That is mainly due to pushing hard on a matched pair of CMX512-3200C2s and having a few faults develope as revealed by memtest along with an overheating cpu at the time. When each dimm was tested separately no errors came up. But they would cause a list of problems if run together. When the current pair of 1gb Kingston dimms were thrown in all problems with system locks and sudden system restarts vanished. But that was after pushing hard with some beta testing as well as some gaming. I'm always grabbing different utilities to give them a run. At the same time Corsair is rated high for gaming.

liquidshadow · 05-21-2006, 10:06 AM

Actually, OCZ is currently rated as the "enthusiast" RAM.

wackydave · 05-21-2006, 12:21 PM

so that memory should work well with that board!

PC eye · 05-21-2006, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by wackydave

so that memory should work well with that board!

That memory is supported easily. You can even run older memory if needed like PC2700 or even lower to PC2100. But you just cannot mix types there. The memory you are looking should see no problems.

liquidshadow · 05-22-2006, 03:22 AM

Technically, you can mix different speed types, but then the RAM will run at the speed of the slowest one.

05-21-2006, 01:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
wackydave Bronze Member Join Date: May 2006 Age: 18 Posts: 35	will this work..? bout to order my pc parts but i am stuck with memory! the board isa MSI KN8 Neo4-f SKT939 nforce4 chipset dual ddr400 and the memory is OCZ Premier dual channel 2×512mb ddr400 pc3200 cl2.5-3-3-7. will they work together.? all this is on ebuyer.com. thanks

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05-21-2006, 02:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	OCZ is an excellent brand of memory. MSI is also a great brand to go with for boards and video cards as well. If you are planning a gaming machine you might want to boost the memory up to 2gb there. Have you decided on a video card at this point? If you stiil have doubts about memory after you could also go with Kingston or Corsair PC3200 dimms.

05-21-2006, 05:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
LITHIUM Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 308	ya i agree...i would go with Corsair instead

05-21-2006, 05:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	I kind of give Kingston and OCZ the edge over Corsair for reliability. That is mainly due to pushing hard on a matched pair of CMX512-3200C2s and having a few faults develope as revealed by memtest along with an overheating cpu at the time. When each dimm was tested separately no errors came up. But they would cause a list of problems if run together. When the current pair of 1gb Kingston dimms were thrown in all problems with system locks and sudden system restarts vanished. But that was after pushing hard with some beta testing as well as some gaming. I'm always grabbing different utilities to give them a run. At the same time Corsair is rated high for gaming.

05-21-2006, 12:21 PM	#6 (permalink)
wackydave Bronze Member Join Date: May 2006 Age: 18 Posts: 35	so that memory should work well with that board!