My plan for AM2 X2 3800, please help

Here is my plan

Asus M2V Skt AM2 Via K8t890
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Skt AM2
Maxtor 160GB IDE Hard Drive 7200RPM 8MB Cache
Kingston 2GB(2*1G) 533MHz PC4200 DDR2 DIMM
HIS ATI Excalibur 9250 128MB DDR DVI TVO AGP8x 64-bit
Cooler Master Centurion 5 Aluminum Front Bezel Black/Silver No PSU
LG GCC-4522B Combo Drive 16x DVD / 52x32x52 CDRW Beige

Is it reasonable? Any suggestions?
Could the dual channel of memory be opened? It is said that the system will crash frequently after openning dual channel of most 667M memory.

I don't play high-end games.
I want to
build my personal website on it.
run database with web server. Usually MySQL is enough
run java Application server
run VMware + Linux

I have to suggest either 667 or 800 RAM, but other than that looks good.

Go with a Seagate or Western Digital with 16MB cache. Newer maxtors run really hot.

DDR2-800 + AM2 X2 3800 is more expensive than DDR2-533 + Core2Duo

About the motherboard
Is Asus M2N-E nForce 570 AM2 Motherboard better than M2V?

About the computer the first important thing to me is stable. I don't want to see the blue screen. I bought one Dell notebook one year ago and it never showed me the blue screen.

To me
50% time browsing on internet
30% developing java program, it need java IDE, web server, My Sql Server...
20% game

So I don't care if every part of the computer works 100% of its performance.

What I really care is after I put those parts together, will they work well or they will crash again and again.....

Thanks,

I investigated the manual of ASUS M2N-E.

Corsair is not in the memory list which is suggested by ASUS...

Thanks a lot!!!

About the Corsair memory, is there a big difference betwwen XMS2 and Value Series.

For the kind of stuff you plan to do, you'd be better off with a refurbished system made of higher quality parts. It would cost much less than building new.

Thanks a lot!!!

About the Corsair memory, is there a big difference betwwen XMS2 and Value Series.

Value Series is crap.. its contracted out to the lowest bidder. ALWAYS buy XMS2.

My advise would be don't listen to all the crap that shadowduck is spouting. He must be employed by corsair or something. IMO XMS2 is a waste of money for what you will be doing.

I don't work for any memory company, i am simply stating facts. Ask others on the board, you will find the same opinion.

I'd need to look at the benchmarks to be sure, but that doesn't sound as crazy as you seem to be letting on.

running memory 1:1 with the FSB yields better performance than asynchronously (3:2 for instance), the extra bandwidth given by ddr2 667 makes the difference hardly noticable or practically a deadheat between it and ddr2 533. in many benchmarks. Here is one article with some graphs showing how memory can scale at different frequencies.
http://anandtech.com/memory/showdo [...] i=2800&p=5

Anandtech has run other articles in the past illustrating the point but I'm too lazy to go dig them up right now.

lol, Okay I went back and re-read the post I responded to and realized you were making a statement about ddr2 533 vs. ddr2 667 rather than quoting a shadowduck comment . . . all sorted out now.