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Hey guys here at technology, i'm a psychic, but I am not computer literate. I have only 512mb Ram on this comp, and I have a Asus P5GD1-VM motherboard, and i've asked people about what kind of ram I could get, yet noone gives me the same answer, so I turn to you, the internet.

tl;dr
I have an Asus P5GD1-vm. I do not know what kind of ram I can get. Could you tell me what would work in this mobo? Thanks.

If you help me I predict a happy future for you.

Assuming someone installed it for you, did you ever think to look your existing RAM to see what will work?

http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=25&model=165&modelmenu=1
says "Dual-Channel DDR 400" so avoid the older single-channel DDR spec as the two are incompatible with one another.

So look for: PC2-3200 / DDR2-400 chips,
anything faster should be able to downclock:
PC2-4200 / DDR2-533 chips
PC2-5300 / DDR2-667 chips
PC2-6400 / DDR2-800 chips

Product Manual in PDF format:
ftp://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5GD1/e1958_em64t_eist.pdf

make that http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?product=1&model=P5GD1-VM&SLanguage=en-us

>>2
Protip: Dual channel DDR is not a TYPE of RAM, it is a possible configuration for DDR/DDR2 RAM.
OP: Your motherboard needs DDR RAM. I recommend DDR400 (NOT DDR2 400)

Any specific brand or type you recommend? Either just gimme a name or a link to newegg or something, I have the idea now, I just want to see people's opinions.

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>>5
Corsair, OCz, Mushkin would be my top 3 choices.
Also: Crucial, G Skill, geIL, Kingston are good.

Frequency is DDR Speed/2 (DDR400 runs at 200MHz)
The higher the better.
Latency is time between operations. Lower is better. DDR RAM should be CAS latency 2.5 at most. 2-3-2-5 RAM can be had for fairly cheap, 2-3-3-6 even cheaper, with a negligable performance hit.