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Originally posted by Johnny Rotten
Amen to that. It's just not worth hanging onto your SDRAM at the cost of having to deal with one of those cheapie boards.
RAM is relatively cheap nowadays anyway. You'll want 512MB, and you can get that for under $100. Stick with Crucial, Micron, Mushkin and Corsair. Anything with a Cas Latency of 3 (CL3) is relatively slow. You'll want CL2.5. You won't be able to find CL2 for less than $140.
You won't need 400MHz RAM, unless you plan to overclock. If you plan to leave that alone, you can do 333MHz, which will run in sync with the Barton's FSB.
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Now i disagree. I have a rendering machine running the shuttle dual memory board and it's never failed, scores weel on benchmarks, and has consistent support from shuttle.
I can't speak of other companies, but Shuttle makes a fine daul memory board capable of xp2700 support via the current bios reviosion for less than $100.00.
A good deal for those that don't want to spend all their cash at once.