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A8N32-SLI Ram question

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Kweian777

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Finally got a hold of the A8N32-SLI, so the question is, is the TWINX2048-3500LLPRO worth it if your not planning on overclocking at all? I know that its ceritfied for the board blah blah and want everything to work. Its not really a money issue, but if its not gonna add anything w/o overclocking, is the OCZ platinum thats like 90 bucks cheaper http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210 a acceptable replacement? Any thoughts?



Planning on

Athlon64 4000+ San Diego
Asus A8N32-SLI
TWINX2048-3500LLPRO 2 gb?
eVGA 7800 gtx 512mb
74 GB WD Raptor Hd
Seasonic S12 600w
BenQ DW1640
Antec P180
 
AMD64 ramps well with DDR speed better than latency (see here, the best RAM on the market performs better at higher speed high latency than low speed low latency), so for your ~$240, your best bet is this

Any reason for not getting dual-core? Either way, get an Opteron 146/148 or an Opteron 170.

Great choices on the motherboard, video card, power supply, burner, and case! :beer:

I'd highly advise against a Raptor. Get a Raptor 7200 (and be sure to look at the game benchmarks)

Oh, and welcome to the AnandTech Forums
 
Thanks!

Haven't put a system together for a few years and doing a lot of research to catch up

The processor and video cards were given to me as gifts, figured I would just use it for now, can upgrade to dual core later.

As for the ram, I know its a stupid question since you already recommended it, but just wanna double check, are you pretty sure that it will work with the motherboard as its not on the qualifed vendor list?

I actually did read the the article you linked on the raptor but taken from it -
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200510/CaviarVsRaptor.png i saw the 10k raptor beating it in farcry, the sims, and WoW, albiet slightly. This setup is only going to be for games, all my mp3s ect are fine on my other computer, i just didnt see the need for more then 74 gigs. Did i misinterpret the graph? Still think its the better buy? Moneys not a big deal, but dont want to throw it away on something I dont need unless there is some other intangables i'm missing.
 
If you are damn sure you'll never ever need more than 74GB, then go for the raptor. But the slight lead the raptor holds isn't worth giving up that 326GB of space for the majority of people.

Yeah, if performance tweakers RAM doesn't work in a performance tweakers motherboard, that Asus made the fsck up, not G.skill. Give them memory controller is on chip in the AMD64 architecture, and theres just tracing between the ram slots and the CPU, its not really up to the motherboard anyway.
 
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