Help Needed For Ram For My Motherboard

[mstaxi]

Hi I am building a system A E8400 on Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - Using Vista 64 Home Premium Can someone reccomend what Ram to get for this set up, and is 8GB {4 X 2GB} OK as I have heard there are BSOD Occurences.
Please Advise.

 

[antas]

To prevent from any problems, see the Gigabyte's website for memory compatibiliy list.

Anyway, for E8400 (FSB 1333), you can use any DDR2-667 (PC2-5300) or above (will be better). First, it will be depend on your need, if you want to OC, then higher speed RAM will be needed. For non OC, I would recommend for PC2-6400, since the price are almost the same with the PC2-5300 and have higher speed.

I'm running E6750 (FSB 1333) on a DDR2-6400 with satisfactorily result, no OC (stock speed).

Go for 4x2GB if your budget allows (due to your Vista64). I think it would be fine. But I'll let somebody with first hand experience on Vista64 with 8GB memory share their thoughts

ps: I don't want to start a flame on memory (2,4,8GB) on Vista64