What is the best brand of ram? Any preferences? or is it 'you get what you pay for'?? RED

Corsiar is a good brand. kingstone, too P4 3.2GHZ kingstone 1GB DDR 3200 ABIT AS8 mobo Nvidia geforce 6800 128mb Soundblaster 24-bit audigy 2 520W PSU

I think you'll find that most standard PC3200 of the same latency (usually called CAS or CL) is roughly the same price. There are a lot of different brands to choose from & everyone has their own preference. You're probably familiar with several of the name brands...Corsair, Crucial, Geil, Kingston, Mushkin are some of the more popular brand names. If you check Newegg, you'll find a lot of lesser known brands offered as well. Generally, the lower the latency, the more you'll pay. There's not much cost difference between CAS 3 & CAS 2.5, but CAS 2 usually takes quite a price jump. IMO, it's not worth it for the minor performance difference. In some cases, you can play with the RAM timings in the BIOS & make the cheaper CAS 2.5 run like the more expensive CAS 2 (or CAS 3 like CAS 2.5) Customer reviews aren't the best way to judge a product, but with a 5 star rating & 456 reviews, it's tough to argue with this Corsair 1GB (2 x 512MB) CAS-2.5 for about $85: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145440 Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz 768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

well, i personally like crucial ram, i have 768mb pc3200 in my system and it works great. you can go to the website and pick up 512mb pc3200 for about 55 bux + 3 or 4 for shipping.

oh i forget, the ram specs or whatever are 2-3-3-6, i guess thats pretty good but i may be wrong

2-3-3-6 are good RAM timings, but you're paying for it...roughly $60 for a single stick of 512MB PC3200. You can get 1GB (2 x 512MB) of 2.5-3-3-7 for about $80. I'm running cheap Kingston valueRAM...768MB of PC3200 3-4-4-8. I changed the timings to 2.5-3-3-7 & have had no problems. I paid less than $40 altogether (both were on sale w/rebates) Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz 768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

is there a difference other then price between registered and unbuffered RAM? is there a performace difference?