Upgrade Advice?

G.Skill good? Yes. It's excellent RAM. The only issue I have is the slack timings on the cheap PC5300 stuff, a lot of people are looking at the FSB and buying, but there is a performance advantage to having tighter RAM timings. I should be able to work out whether having 20% faster refresh rate is better than a 25% increase in FSB or whether the actual overall performance improvement is only 5%, but it's late, so I'll leave that for someone in the memory forum to sort out ;)
 
I currently have Corsair DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x512). But after looking through the memory i saw this Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS).

If i chose to go down the AMD route and use the Asus M2N32-SLi-DLX nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-142-AS) will i have any issues? After all ASUS claim they support all corsair memories well DDR2 range anyway.
 
I think the honest answer to that is I don't know. There should not be a problem, but you can never tell.

I actually buy Corsair Value Select RAM as it's CAS 3.0, which I think is quite important for AMD computers, but not so important for Intels. I only buy it because it's cheaper and a better specification ;)

The XMS2 stuff is CAS 4.0 which is still good for DDR2 5300 (I note that they're actually DDR2 PC5400, but that just allows Abit to overclock by 2% as standard :D ). It does look very funky though.
 
Just read a nice review about that ASUS AM2 Motherboard at Hard OCP.

Do you think the AM2 3800+ will be good for gaming with the corsair memory as mentioned above.
 
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You'd need to ask that on the CPU forum - I'm an Intel man (If you cut me in half it's blue with a swirl) and I don't play a lot of games.

Sorry.
 
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