Upgrading pc to maximum potential

[davebem]

Im upgrading my pc to make it as fast as possible but keeping the original motherboard. Im getting a skt478 Pentium 4 3.2ghz on the cheap but im stuck with what to do with the ram. The motherboard has DDR400(pc3200) support but the manual is a bit confusing, quote from manual:

DDR dimm sockets, these three 184pin dimm sockets support upto 3gb system meory using unbuffered non-ecc ddr sdram dimms. pc2100/1600 support up to 3 dimms; pc3200/2700 support up to 2 dimms; 1GB pc3200/2700 with 32 ddr chips support 1 dimm only.

Does that mean that if i want pc3200 I can only have say 1X 1gb dimm??

I want approx 2gb of the fastest possible. What would you suggest?

 

[caeteez]

As with any PC upgrade, you would be best off getting a quicker mobo, but if your keeping this then I would think that means if your going to use 3 sticks they can only be PC2100, 2 sticks can be PC3200 but if you use a PC3200 stick with 32DDR Support, you can only use on DIMM.