Memory req for ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

[whitecrook]

My board is here. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA&s=

What's the best memory to get, DDR2, at 667MHz? I have a E2140 (not oc'd, but was running at 2.2 GHz for a while there.



I'll get 2x 1GB sticks, what PC number should it be? PC4200?


Thanks all






read if you can be bothered:

I have 2x 512MB TwinMOS DDR ram that I got about 5 years ago and recently #I'm getting loads of errors which I think are mem related, stop errors, and memory could not be reads. I ran memtest ages ago and it did flag up some problems, so I need to get new mem.

 

[whitecrook]

i've got that motherboard.. (dont like it) .. it will only take 2gb ram, and you can't overclock the ram...

How do you mean? My DDR 400 was running at 250+ Mhz?

Besides I didn't buy the board for OCing, I bought it cos it was cheap and provided a good upgrade path, with DD1 + DDR2, and AGP + PCIE.

Thanks Cob, I'll get some PC5300.

 

[whitecrook]

i've heard this mobo hits a wall at 291...

Yeah, I read a while back that the OC potential is limited, but as I said i's not a concern of mine.

291 for DDR?


as posted above it'll goto 333 for DDR2.


The alternative at the time for me was a SATA card + 2x 500 gig drives, which equated to nearly 200 at the time, but I got the board and proc for 70 new, plus the drives came to about 220. and keep my mem, PATA drives, and AGP gfx,. No brainer really. From a XP1900+