cygnusaa Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 One more for you guys, Would you recommend 1GB of RAM or will 512MB suffice? I plan on this build: Asus M2NPV-VM Sempron 3000 4 - 500GB WD (or Sammy) 1GB or 512MB Corsair Value Select DDR2 667 (PC5300) 2-3 clients accessing at the most, all hard wired. Link to comment
BillK Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 512MB will do...although you might try two 256MB sticks so you can take advantage of dual channel, although some brands of MBs are finicky about "value" RAM. Link to comment
cygnusaa Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 cool... yeah i planned on two sticks for the dual channel....nice to hear that 512MB will do....save a few bucks.... ive used corsair value ram alot and never had issues with performance or compatability...i dont really verclock, not even my gaming machines, so i cant speak to its performance in that regard... thanks for the info. Link to comment
BillK Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I mentioned "value" RAM not because of it's ability or inability to overclock, but rather that some motherboards won't recognize a pair as a matching set and leave you with a single channel setup. And yes, it's happend to me (Corsair ValueSelect RAM and an Asus P5PE-VM mb) Link to comment
cygnusaa Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 really...that sucks...i hope a quick RMA took care of it i ordered my mobo, cpu and ram today....be awhile before i assemble everything but im looking forward to it... hope i continue having success with corsair tho... Link to comment
BillK Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Unfortunately, because I reboot my unRAID so infrequently (knock on wood), I didn't catch it in time for RMA. I've hunted around the Asus bulletin board and found another user with the same problem, but I want to wait to raise it with technical support until I upgraded my MB to the latest BIOS. Link to comment
cygnusaa Posted March 14, 2007 Author Share Posted March 14, 2007 i havent checked recently but i doubt they addressed the DVI port issue i had with my a8nvm-csm thats in my htpc.... dvi out was a no go to my 32" lcd...had to fool around with swapping crt to vga then trying to trick it into working...was a nightmare and disappointing because i bought that model due to the fact that it could do everything...i wound up installing asus' 7600gs silent and disabled onboard video in the bios...havent really looked back...i considered yanking it to use for my unraid server but ive got my htpc just were i want it...and it might not have worked with unraid anyway...seems to be that unraid requires a fairly narrow hardware path unless a person is willing to troubleshoot...being mostly self taught in everything, sometimes i just wanna take the path that others forged if ya know what i mean... lots of venom on asus' forums sometimes but other than that issue theyve been a rock for me... bummer about RMA...i expect i will reboot infrequently as well...ill have to "torture" it a little....i like to "set it and forget it" lol.....at least thats the goal Link to comment
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