Hi,

I am planning on building a new gaming PC but, I am confused about all the different types of RAM and what will go into the motherboard i was planning to purchase. The motherboard is an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe NVIDIA Socket 939 Motherboard Audio PCI Express SLI Ready Dual Gigabit LAN USB 2.0 & Firewire Serial ATA Dual RAID A8N-SLI Deluxe at TigerDirect.com
On Tigerdirect on the top picture it says DDR DIMM slots but on the bottom under memory expansion it says: The A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard contains four 184-pin DDR SDRAM memory slots. They can support up to 4GB of DDR400/DDR333/DDR266 ECC/ non-ECC un-buffered DDR SDRAM memory . Are these the same type with different names? What type would be best for gaming I am going to get 2 X 512mb and also what type goes into this motherboard.
Whats the difference between these:
DIMM-
SIMM-
DDR-
DDR2-
SDRAM-

Thanks in Advance

hello xpertkirby and welcome to pchf

here is a link that explains the types or ram
Random access memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

as for what kind of ram you can put in in the specs it says that the motherboard supports the following ddr400, ddr333 and ddr266 personally i would go for the ddr400

hope this helps
genie3251

DDR is what the board supports. DDR2 does not fit. DDR ECC will fit, however it will not operate - ECC is server rated memory.

You can only ever support 4gb of RAM in Windows x64 (64 bit operating system)