Ram Upgrade Help

[Koolbeans]

I have an ASUS P4P800 SE Motherboard that currently has Kingston DDR400 Valueram (1 Gig). I want to upgrade to 2 Gigs, but I dont know if I have to use ECC or non ECC and I dont know the speed of the Ram. Can someone please help?
Thank you very much.

 

[Jesse_hz]

Most likely you need RAM that is not ECC. You said that your ram was DDR400, that means that it's real speed is 400/2 = 200Mhz, but because it's DDR SD-RAM it's labeled as 400 because it does double the amount of work as the previous SD-RAM at the same speed.

 

[Tedster]

just read the label off the current stick of ram you have. It should tell you. Then buy an exact copy of it. you should be fine.