Approved memory brands for ASUS --- ?

WOW -- HI there everyone ! -- Yup -- another "newbie" to all this <giggles> Hope this is a semi-intelligent question. MOST of the current motherboards seem MORE than a bit "differential" to specific brands and positions/matchings of memory. ANYONE HAVE A CLUE ?(of course, other than calling ASUS or trying to use their <NAI> "new and improved" (REALLY ?????) ... website to find something.... as to what recommended memory brands REALLY work well ? First new system in quite a while and I am TRYING to be careful and conscientious as a good BOEING engineer would, to put this together like a shiny new 7E7 ! Choices so far are ASUS A8N-E (but taking peeks @ today's clip of the A8V Special Ed. from Japan) ... Antec TX640B w/ upgrade to black fanless PSU prototype w/ didital readouts on frontcase ... ASUS EN6600TD/128-256 (haven't decided which one) ... AMD (Select Graded) 64/3000+ 1G/FSB, Seagate Barracuda 160SATA/NCQ, Plextor 740A DVD (just arrived today !) ...and FINALLY, got off the dime and made a decision on the cooler I wanted -- looked EVERYWHERE for like an eternity to find Swiftech that was ACTUALLY FOR SALE <ha ha ha ha ha>, and this AM found MCX64-V o/a/p, @New-Egg !! and for not a bad price either. Got a REALLY good idea that changing the fan to Silverstone FN82 (the co-op 80/92) model will be EVEN QUIETER and bring in more air! They are ALMOST as quiet as SilenX stuff ! Anyway ... that leaves the subject of this article ... WHICH MEMORY ? -- some odd comments overheard surfing are shaking my faith that as good as ...(heck OCZ is GREAT !) .... Um OCZ seems to give ASUS fits a lot of the time. Crucial's "Memory Selector" is OK I guess... but don't know enough about their reliability and history ... and Corsair... ????? their website is like getting stuck taped to the ball inside a pinball machine. !! Yikes !!! I don't care HOW good their products are ! I'd really like to USE OCZ but forgot today to ask them what kind of association they have w/ ASUS. so ... thought I'd ask some of the EXPERTS rather than just sit here and scratch my "bunny ears" [giggles] Anyone having a suggestion (pref from EXPERIENCE) or @ least from GOOD heresay, speakup !!! Thanks for the chance to post this concern here -- somehow I'm guessing I'm NOT the 1st one to have this question.

Since building/assembly is somewhat imminent, PLEASZE feel free to e/mail anything you have to say -- maggieblack8@yahoo.com.au !

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Welcome to the site. I hope you post that system at ASEville when you build it. »http://www.aseville.com

I'll stand by Crucial's products, hands down. If you buy Crucial, you will get a lifetime warranty, period. Crucial is Micron which is one of the largest memory makers.

I have not had one stick of Crucial memory fail on my yet. From even PC66 I have.

Impressive build, by the way.

Corsair memory is very reliable. I'm using their TwinX stuff in one of my builds and it is stable.

Most RAM is compatible. At least ASUS tells you in their somewhat coherent, somewhat engrish (http://www.engrish.com) manual.

Why go with only a 3000+ chip? Go with dual-core if you really want to see a difference between 64 chips and semprons. Otherwise, I'd say you're wasting your money on a measily 64 3000.

Also, look into running two SATA drives in RAID-0. This will give you a larger performance boost than wasting your money away on processors.