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November 14th, 2006, 10:14 AM
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Hi, I'm all new to the hardware world and I'm assembling my new pc so this is what I got:
Intel Dual Core 2 2.13Mhz
Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard
Maxtor SATA 400Gb HD
Asus 7600GS 512Mb silent
now I don't know if I should get 800Mhz or 667Mhz RAM because some people told me 800Mhz is only for overclockers, what do you think about it??
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November 15th, 2006, 12:56 AM
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Get the fastest ram your mobo supports.
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November 15th, 2006, 01:05 AM
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yep, the fastest memory that the board can run, as for brands look for some more reputable brands like Corsair, Crucial, Patriot, OCZ, among others...
usually their Extreme series perform better (lower latency, easily overclocked) 
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November 15th, 2006, 06:41 PM
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If this is your mobo the specs say it supports ddr2 800 memory, so I would go for like two 1gb sticks of this memory |
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November 15th, 2006, 06:50 PM
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November 15th, 2006, 06:51 PM
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ok.. so what is the latency exactly... should i be running 2.5 or 2??? or 3???
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November 15th, 2006, 06:57 PM
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2 if possible, lower latencies means faster RAM, although the difference is not really that noticable.
Latency is the time that elapses before a stick of RAM can do something (store data, read, write, etc.) CAS Latency is the most important latency (column address strobe) and since I'm not good with words, here's wikipedia's definition of CAS Latency: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Wikipedia CAS Latency is the time that elapses after the memory controller sends a request to read a memory location and before the data is sent to the module's output pins. | My favorite RAM company is Mushkin, followed by Corsair, OCZ, Crucial, GEIL, G.Skill, Patriot, Kingston, Buffalo, and a couple others. PNY is pretty good, but not to get confused with PQI, which IMO is utter trash.
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November 16th, 2006, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ShuckyD yep, the fastest memory that the board can run, as for brands look for some more reputable brands like Corsair, Crucial, Patriot, OCZ, among others...
usually their Extreme series perform better (lower latency, easily overclocked)  | ive heard good things about Geil ram |
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