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I'm wanting some advice about a system I'm building and what memory I should select. I'm going to purchase the MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum Moboard with the A64 3500+ CPU. MSI recommends the PC3200 RAM which I'm leaning on getting but I also am thinking about the PC3700 RAM. I think I'll get the "enhanced bandwidth" version of either of these but my question is the PC3700 ram runs at 466Mhz. Will I see any advantage from the 3700 version of the RAM over the 3200 which runs at 400Mhz? I don't plan on overclocking at all.
Thanks, all
Tim

Tim,
Just get good quality PC-3200 and you will be fine. If you are looking to overclock, then I would look at getting a least PC-4000.  
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