NF7-S Memory Recommendations

First post here at the OCF's.

I have a friend that is going to be buying an NF7-S soon and he is looking at putting 1g of RAM in it in a DC configuration (2x512mb). I suggested to him to get two sticks of KINGSTON HyperX Series PC3500 because he will be using a 2500+ Barton and will hopefully OC it past 3200+ speeds and will want to keep his memory in sync with the CPU FSB (PC3200 limit is 400mhz where as PC3500 is 433mhz). Anyone have any problems with this on the NF7-S or hear of any problems with it on the board?

Wellcome to the forums!

I have kingston hyperX pc3200 and it works great for me. I can run at 218fsb 2-2-2-6 with stock voltage. (2.6v) I think pc3500 would be overkill as the nforce2 boards don't usually run over 230fsb without serious mod's.

There is some talk about ram for nforce2 motherboards in this thread:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=224798

Ditto what Dropadrop says. I'm finding PC-3500 to be a bit
of overkill as few nForce 2 motherboards can break 215FSB.
I've been through about 8 different nForce 2 ultra boards,
and only two of them would do it consistantly no matter how
good my chips were.

I'm also VERY happy with both my Kingston Hyper-X 3200, as
well as my Hyper-X 3500. I've also tested Corsair PC-3200
and PC-3500, and TwinMos 3200 and 3700.

No matter what, most of the nForce2 boards peter-out around
215-220FSB. So unless your friend it looks to put some serious
mods and cash into his setup, just stick with name brand
PC-3200 and be very happy.

Oh, I forgot to mention, the current generations of OCZ memory
are doing really well, but I've not has as much testing time
with them as I've had with the stuff I listed above. I just
didn't want anyone to think I'm writing them off as crap. I've
been happy with them too, I just don't have as much experience
with them

Thanks for the welcome and input to my questions!

One other question.....for those of you that have used Kingston Hyper-X PC3200, have you used two 512mb sticks (1.0g total) in a DC config on a NF7-S 2.0 board at >=200mhz and if so, could you run it at the advertised timings of 2-2-2-6-1T or better?

Anyone?