Ive been looking into RAM (who hasnt at the moment) and have narrowed myself down to these two:
2 loads of 512Mb DDR RAM PC4000 DDR500 - A-Data - £250
or
1Gb kit DDR PC-4000 Dual Channel - GeIL Ultra Platinum - £268
That Geil RAM is supposed to be optimised for Dual channel. Is this just a marketing gimmick or will the A-data do the same job?
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I really dislike Geil and OCZ stuff was very poor for a good while although it seems their latest stuff is MUCH better now. TwinMOS esp with Winbond should also be worth considering as that's top notch stuff. I would suggest Adata PC4000 for your P4 but you may still find async necessary so slightly slower RAM (even the cheaper PC3200) may not limit you much at all. People seem to much prefer > 1000FSB with async RAM than 900FSB(ish) synced.
As for 'matched' or specifc Dual Channel RAM it's just a way to take more of your money, avoid. Do consider 2x256MB as you can easily add another 2x256MB when there's actually a need for it ... almost all home users don't need all of the 512MB let alone 1GB and in the long term RAM prices will always fall (esp for the current top end stuff like PC4000).
So when using the nF2 onboard gfx you either get GF4MX420 perf (1 DIMM) or GF4MX440 if using Dual Channel mode. Since GF4MX440 are £30 and DX9 cards can be had for £50 it doesn't make much diff even if you have Dual Channel goodness.