HRRRRM well I did something silly here.

Wanted to upgrade to 3.5 GB RAM (4 GB, but yeah XP 32-bit limitation, no big though, just hoping that having a 768 MB 9600 GSO, and 3.5 GB of RAM doesn't cause games to act funny, and just improves performance, though I DID disable page file system also.)

And even then my ram sticks are 5 yrs old, could use a new batch since I DID receive BSODs about two months ago, that were occuring often after I exit a game, but now ever since they literally stopped being consistent, never happened for awhile now.

BUT that besides the point.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146526

I ordered two of these.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148111

Then a thought occured to me and checked out newegg to verify my realization.  Yep there was a 2 x 2 GB set.  Silly me!

I talked to a representative.  If I refuse to accept the package and have them return it, they'll fully refund me and no restocking fee will occur either.  That's good, but for non overclocking purposes, having 4 slots fully occupied has no difference to having just two sticks right?  I know that in overclocking, less sticks equals better overclock.

Then there's also the fact that if having 4 GB has a negative effect on my performance (unlikely there WAS  a few people that had their game FPS drop and had to remove a stick, but, overall everybody else stated they had no problems, and just had 3.5 GBs to work with).

Then maybe I could just remove 1 stick out of the 4 and only have 3, even if they are dual channel memory kits.

So I shouldn't try to get a single 2 x 2 set?  I'll be fine with having 2 "2 x 1 GB kits"?

Well got the two kits, and everything is working fine and dandy.  So no complaints here.  (Yeah decided not to return them)