ALright guys, is this it?

[B00tlegbob]

All good points. Cant be bothered editing my post to add a 2 after every nforce reference, if anyone doesnt work out i was talking the nforce*2* chipset then THIS post will serve to tell them so.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

VIA is supposed to be releasing a new chipset (VIA KT400-A) that is supposed to have better support for DDR400 ram.

[Zatrais]

Yup, there are some whose holding on to DDR 400 but the industry in general has turned its back on it along whit RDR RAM. they cost to much for to little gain in real performance.

[Navaron]

I think from the reviews I read, and you guys imput, that I'm going to grab one 512 of cl2 corsair ddr333, and maybe another later on.

[Zatrais]

save yourself the hassel and get 2 512 right away =P

can turn down the swapfile/pagefile in windows to nothing then and get a nice boost =)

[Navaron]

:"can turn down the swapfile/pagefile in windows to nothing then and get a nice boost =)"

Huh? What is/ and how do i do that...

[Zatrais]

a paging file is a file that windows creates to use as atrificial ram on your HD. Now a HD is uhm damn slower than actual physical RAM. By turning your paging file down or off completely you essentially force windows to use all the available physical RAM before it starts to mess around whit creating artificial (and slooooow) "ram". Whit 1024 MB of RAM windows XP (it has a pretty good memory controller) pretty much never runs out of raw physical RAM and a large, over 256MB big paging file is needless and just creates a bottleneck in data flow.

As for how you do it, first of all you'll need windows XP or win 2002 or if you still got win98 you need to "haxz0r" (couldn't resist) well more like edit a system file to get it to see all the avail able ram. It isn't recomended tho since it can create instability.

in XP:
start -> settings -> control panel -> system -> advanced -> settings under the perfromance category -> advanced -> change (at the bottom of the tab) now you can set the paging file for your c: drive. you can either disable it al together or run a 100 min file and 256 max or just disable it all together. Try around and see what works for you. I run whit no paging file.

[Navaron]

And this is the case I got.... mmmmm pretty red lights....http://www.ditcorp.com/itemdesc.asp?...2XPWB&Cc=&tpc=