Yet another ram question..

GobblesGobbles Ventura California
edited December 2003 in Hardware
what some good cheaper 2700 or 3200 ram (non xms/hyperx)

TIA

Gobbles

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  • dak125dak125
    edited December 2003
    I had a gig of Samsung PC2700 in my old PC. The stuff worked great. 512 of it is in my mom's pc right now. It's been going strong for 1.5-2 years. Make sure you get legitimate Samsung though. If you don't, you'll only get a 1 year warranty as opposed to the Samsung lifetime warranty.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited December 2003
    newegg does not sell samsung anymore..

    I think im going with the abit nf7-s and barton 2500+ and a 12 dollar pci modem for doing faxes all I have are older non pci modems.

    Thrax suggested corsair xms pc2700 LL but thats like 111 for a single 512.. I was kinda hopen to push to 1 gig of ram.. and stay under 350 shipped with tax.. I have to pay tax at new egg cuz I live in Ca.

    Gobbles
  • fudgamfudgam Upstate New York
    edited December 2003
    :topic: dak125, you got an awesome avatar :topic:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    What do you want?

    A lot of memory that's cheap and slow, or less memory that's good, reliable, and faster than hell?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I would get 1 512Mb stick of good stuff now and get another later. Right now I am hooked on Mushkin 3200 Level II and 3500 Level II.
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited December 2003
    Buffalo pc3200 (the cheapest one) get 2x 256 it will most likely be winbond ch5's which will do 240 fsb @ 5-3-2-2
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Al_Capown wrote:
    Buffalo pc3200 (the cheapest one) get 2x 256 it will most likely be winbond ch5's which will do 240 fsb @ 5-3-2-2

    The Buffalo recommendation is good. If you want still cheaper, go with Geil. Giel is NOT overclocking RAM, but it will deliver at advertised specifications - but no headroom beyond that. I've got a great overclock on my Intel rig, but only because I've set the divider at 5:4, keeping the PC3200 DRAM at factory specs.
  • dak125dak125
    edited December 2003
    fudgam wrote:
    :topic: dak125, you got an awesome avatar :topic:

    Thanks ;)
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited December 2003
    Thrax wrote:
    What do you want?

    A lot of memory that's cheap and slow, or less memory that's good, reliable, and faster than hell?

    alot of fast ram for really cheap... and reliable :D

    Whats the difference between the

    Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-2700 with Platinum Silver Heat Spreader

    and the

    Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-2700 with Platinum-Silver Heat Spreader


    or more to the point...
    Cas Latency: 2-3-3-6
    Cas Latency: 2-2-2-5 1T

    Educate me as the last ram I bought was 256 sticks of pc133 from crucial... 1.5 years ago...

    Gobbles
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    2/2/2/5/1 is 100-200 megabytes/secon faster than 2/3/3/6/1.

    And the 2/2/2 module will have more overclocking room.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited December 2003
    There is really that much difference in transfer speeds.. 100 to 200 meg... damn... I never realized until I see it put that way...

    I really hate to think what the pc133 is doing in this system now...

    Gobbles
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    PC133.

    133 x 8 = 1064MB/s of bandwidth.

    The slowest DDR (PC1600), is close to a half gig/second faster.
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