russell hayward

Chaintech 7NJS Zenith

Or should I be looking at something else ?

Ta

Jye

Personally I'd go for this over the Asus A7N8X Deluxe (which I would normally consider being an Asus fan).

The main reason being that the capacitors on the Asus near the CPU socket are far too close for larger heatsinks, which is a major design fault.

Yeah, go for it

russell hayward

Great !

So the next question is which RAM do I want ?

Jye

I'd say PC3200/DDR400 (3.2 GB/sec), Corsair sticks are pretty good. This mobo uses twinbank memory which doubles your memory bandwidth, so this alone is worth getting the highest bandwidth mem possible as you will then get 6.4 GB/Sec throughput (theoretically)

ChrisB

If you've got the money, Corsair TwinX kit.

russell hayward

Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3500 Platinum CAS2 (MY-010-CS)

or one of these ?

Jye

Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3200 TwinX (2x256MB) Platinum CAS2 (MY-017-CS)

Unless your working with 3D rendering or use huge pics in Photoshop etc then the pair of matched 256 ones should be fine.

All depends on your budget, needs etc.

russell hayward

The 512mb single chip is a few quid cheaper

Jye

Yes, but if you want to make the most of your spanking new nForce2 mobo then twinbank is the way to go (twinbank needs two mem sticks and the balanced ones should be best). It would seem a shame to buy this mobo then not use one of its best features, as I said if you are on a buget then fair enough.

russell hayward

I understand, two chips better than one.

sorry, not too hot on all this stuff so thought I'd try and get it right this time !!

Jye

np, I'm new to these nForce boards myself atm, but Im considering buying one soon