codral

yeh, so anyways i bought a 1 gig 3200DDR chip a while ago and it never worked! Running it by itself the computer wouldnt boot, running it with my 512mb stick i could either get the PC to detect 1 gig or to detect the 512, never the full 1.5 gig and the 1 gig would never work by itself. Now that's how it came when i got it, so i was worried it was my motherboard or choice of ram and not just dodgy ram.

I have a 1 year warranty on the ram but i couldnt be botherred driving for 30 minutes to get a new one so i was planning on buying some at work.

i recently bought a 7600GT and while i can run games like prince of persian: the two thrones and such on max graphics, my PC really struggles on games like FEAR.

So i'm assuming the 512mb of ram isn't enough for games like FEAR, correct?

Anyways, i just wanted to know whether i should get SD or DDR ram and what speed i should get. I'm assuming 2 gig is enough. My motherboard is only about 8 months old and is pretty decent (it has 3 fans on it!!)

Anyway my PC specs are:
512mb of working ram, 1 gig of broken ram
7600GT 256mb card
AMD Athlon 3700+ san diego
250 gig hdd (it's pretty new so i assume pretty fast, don't know if a reformat will help on speed in games, maybe it would)
MSI, K8N DIAMOND SLI PLUS motherboard

Also, for some reason, even though i have all sorts of weird and cool overclocking features on this motherboard, i can't overclock the host clock on the cpu, only the fsb, which is annoying because i know these chips are pretty overclockable