what kind of ram to speed up?

[roberttran]

Hey,
I have a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW+ motherboard running dual Athlon MP 2000 processors.
At the moment I have 2 sticks of Crucial 512MB Registered ECC PC2100 RAM.
I've been looking around it and it looks like my board can run non registered RAM as long as it's ECC. Would I see any speed benefits if I ran non registered PC3200 RAM? If so, what kind does everyone recommend? Should I get them paired or not?

Thanks,
Robert

 

[tom61]

Unless you plan on overclocking your processors, PC3200 won't help you. PC3200 is rated to run at a higher clock speed, but if you're running them at 266MHz you don't get any benefit over PC2100, and you'll loose ECC in the process.