[wreckdcrx]

I'm new to here so hi all! I just bought a Asus P4T533-C with a P4 2.4. but after looking at the combo page... it said that 800-45 series rimms wouldn't work if the 533MHz cpu FSB was used. will i be lacking with only useing the 400! i dunno this is all german to me... i know the difference between a hd and a cdrw and thatz about it! now i wanted 4 sticks of 256mb or 512mb RDRAM(i havn't decided yet) i need some advice. would it be in my best interests to get ECC ram or non ECC i'm lost here! any help is awesome thanks

wreckd

 

[johnwill]

IMO, with the price of RAM today, there's never a real good excuse not to use ECC memory. Many crashes are really just temporary RAM errors, which you don't see with ECC. If you do have a major problem with RAM using ECC, instead of a mystery crash, you get a clear indication of what happened, a memory error! I've been using ECC ever since the original Pentium chipsets started supporting it, and standard parity before that.

As far as the type of RAM to get, you obviously want to match it up to the requirements of the MB and processor...