(to administrator- appologies for double posting but i've had no responce from the hardware hangout, better luck here maybe?)

Looking to upgrade my system. Probably getting a msi K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD64 3500+. Have been looking aroung for memory, reading reviews and becoming more and more confused, but have narrowed it down to:

Crucial Ballistix DDR PC3200 • 2-2-2-6 • UNBUFFERED

My main usage of the PC is for playing games, so although the above mem has good reviews, is it cool for gaming, if not....any suggestions?

2 512 ddr 400

= 1 gb is the best

I've bought 2 x 512 Megs of Corsair XMS PC3200 CL2, no problems so far, highly stable and extremely fast but never heard anything bad about Crucial either

There isnt such thing as better memory for gaming.

My ADATA pc3200 will technically perform the same as those Ballistix would as they are the same speed, if used on the same system (yes you may get better SiSoft Sandra scores - but this would not be noticable in actual everyday and gaming use).

Memory types come into thier own with overclocking (which will improve your gaming performance as your machine is faster), my ADATA falls over when slightly overclocked and the reason the Ballistix are better is because you can overclock it whilst still maintaining tigher RAM timings and you can also put more Volts through them.

2x512mb Kingston HyperX with BH-5 memory chips is decent.

The only reason to buy aggressive timing memory is for OVERCLOCKING. If you are planning to use your CPU at the stock speed, don't pay to much attention to this aspect.

I would jsut suggest 2 x 512mb