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Would buying 2*512 mb of corsair xms pc3200 cas 2 LL be a good choice for future minded setup (they're going into a p4 rig now but probably an athlon in two months) or are there other alternatives?
(CORSAIR TWINX Matched DDR 2 x 512MB 400Mhz PC3200 CAS2 HSP LOW Latency)
I need to buy more ram for my p4 farcry-setup, which I can run at 5:4 cas 2 2-2-6 if needed (it'll be about equivalent to my 233 mhz 1:1 at cas 3 3-3-7...), but I'd like to use that ram with the next setup too...

I thought AMD A64 is going to support DDR500 in the future, i don't know the specifics.

I think it's a safe buy. Most, if not all, P4E and A64 will run at 200fsb.

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Na het eerdere bericht dat AMD voorlopig geen plannen heeft met DDR2, is er nu extra grond ter ondersteuning van die stelling: op VR-Zone is een artikel verschenen waarin wordt gemeld dat AMD met de 90nm cores waarschijnlijk DDR500 gaat ondersteunen. Ondersteuning voor DDR2 zal volgens het artikel pas interessant zijn als het een stevig prestatievoordeel ten opzichte van gewoon DDR oplevert, en als er voor DDR2 niet meer de hoge prijs betaald hoeft te worden die er nu voor staat. Er werd eerst gevreesd dat AMD met de geïntegreerde memorycontrollers van de Athlon 64- en Opteron-processors niet zou kunnen volgen in de ontwikkelingen op DDR-gebied, maar die vrees lijkt nu ongegrond. Voor zowel de 90nm-versies van de Athlon 64 (Winchester) als de Athlon 64 FX (San Diego) staat ondersteuning voor Dual Channel DDR500 op het plan, beide processors moeten in de tweede helft van dit jaar op de markt komen.

yeah, but on these memorysticks, will there still be headroom to overclock?
or is that unimportant with the amount of dividers on the a64 boards?
do you need high memspeeds on an a64? of just tight timings, I have no idea how those dividers and hypertransportbusses work...

Doesn't 64A run on ECC memory? If "my memory" serves me right, they do.

If you could get your hands on Apacer Infineon chip by you, I highly recommend them.

The A64 FX runs on registered memory
the A64 runs on unregistered memory

no need for ECC mem :)

I'll take socket 939 so I don't need registered ram...
would ocz 3500 eb meet my demands?
apparently (anandtech review) it'd be great with p4 and a64, go very high and perform just as good at cas 2.5 3-3-6 as a cas 2 2-2-5, and more so if you increase the speed, their review however is on a p4 setup
and they come in dualkits of 2*1024 mb which would be great.
I just need 1 gig+ of blazingly fast ram...

3500EB looks like a good solution yes.

TWINMOS TWINX Matched DDR 2 x 512MB 400Mhz PC3200
TWINMOS DDR 512MB 400Mhz PC3200 IN STOCK €100,20
CORSAIR DDR 512MB 400Mhz PC3200 ValueSelect €108,20
APACER DDR 512MB 400Mhz PC3200 €103,00

Which one of these? My guess is going to the store and checking the chips it comes with?

Anyone knows which chips the Corsair Valueselect comes with?

Where can one buy 3500EB OCZ?

I'd wanna know where you can get that 3500eb too...

http://www.hofline.com/catalog/default.php
has OCZ ram,

they'll have the 3500EB also I guess, as soon as it becomes available on the market.