Memory Advice needed

This comp is not high end stuff and at the moment it has two sticks of
PC133 SDRAM 128 MB in place. However it is a KM2M MSI Combo and will
also take 184 pin DDR SDRAM. The manual says PC2700/PC2100/PC1600.

When I ran the Crucial advisor it also comes up with

DDR PC3200 . CL=3 . UNBUFFERED . NON-ECC . DDR400 . 2.6V . 64Meg x 64

It appears that it is cheaper to buy this than the others and my mind
says well it may come in handy if I get richer and buy a more powerful
rig.

So can you set me straight is it a case that it just 'slows down' to
accommodate the limits of the motherboard.

Also this board will take up to 2 gigabyte of RAM, frankly the 256
that is in here does me but son does like to play games so how much
RAM would you suggest. Windows XP Pro.

Thanks in advance.


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