yes its dual channel. is the asus a7n8x deluxe

just get 2 then. what is the spec of your entire pc.

CPU: AMD Athlon 2800+ (water cooled by Koolance Exos)
Motherboard: Asus A7N8X Delluxe
Video Card: Radeon9800 Pro 256 (water cooled by Koolance Exos)
Monitor: Envision 19" LCD
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
RAM: 1.2 Gigs of DDR (512 + 256)2100 and (512)2700
Primary Hard Drive: 120 Gig 7200
Secondary Hard Drive: 80 Gig 7200
Primary CD-ROM: 16X DVD-ROM
Case: Bluye case with window and lights

personally i do not think you will see a huge difference in performance. only a moderate improvement.

nice setup you got there.

make sure you put the new RAM in the correct slots for dual channel, sometimes the banks are split for dual channel

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":b147a]personally i do not think you will see a huge difference in performance. only a moderate improvement.

nice setup you got there.[/quote:b147a]

LOL!

He'll see a HUGE difference in performance.

Dual-Channel DDR400 capable board and he was using 333 or lower. Come
on...

Buy those sticks!

annoy:

moderate.

I was loving your system until I read the sound card :(

[quote="Short Hand":23590]I was loving your system until I read the sound card :([/quote:23590]

works fine for me biggrin:

Moderate gains at best IMO.

The xp2800 barton is only available in the 333fsb. So ignoring overclocking, ddr2700 is the best match, you will not realize any gains by getting faster ram than that. The motherboard is rated for 400fsb, but its bottlenecked by the cpu. Currently you are bottlenecked at your ram. It is running at the ddr 2100 speed or a front side bus (FSB) of 266. That is negating any advatage you have with the xp2800 (333fsb) and the fast (and nice) mobo (400fsb).

So by upping your ram speeds to a minimum of ddr2700, you will effctively be increasing your system fsb to 333 from 266. This will roughly equate to the difference between a xp2200 and an xp2500 333 - both run at a core freq. of 1800mhz with the fsb increase making the difference of the named speed. You might still wnat ot consider teh 3200 as I dont think its much more expensive than the ddr2700 if any at all.

BUT, (theres always a but) I am not sure how much difference the dual channel ddr will make and I cant be bothered to look it up right now. Maybe sloi can enlighten us on that or you could go search for benchmarks on tomhardware.com or somewhere similar. Just remember that (theoretically) ram that is twice as fast, still doesnt equate to a system that is twice as fast or twice the framerate. Its only part of the full picture.

I think this is all accurate as it is all off the top of my head, but feel free to point out any mistakes.

thanks pest, i appreciate it. i think i might just get the 333 then since i can get that for free from a friend that doesnt need it anymore

Get the 1GB kit of Kingston Hyper-x pc3200. it comes with 2 sticks of 512. they even got cool blue anadized heatspreaders. set that sucker in dual channel mode and your set. thats what im runnin currently

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Hah, I hadn't noticed your CPU FSB speed... in that case the improvement will be
moderate, but noticeable. Go for it, man.

I want money...Can i borrow some cash Himmler, you rich mother fucker. happy:

hey i worked for 6 months then worked at an office for a month and i havent spent any of my money and i wanna buy something. go work then get money then spend it. chump biggrin: