Can I get a recommendation on some Ram please?

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Ansris

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Hi,

I'm working on building a new Rig to take to college with me and I had a question regarding Ram. Currently, I've got an Asus AN8-SLI deluxe board and plan to drop an FX-55 into it, but I don't know what I should get for ram in it. I'm not that adept in ram and how the timings work, so I guess what I'm asking is what should I look for when I'm getting Ram? I plan to use it for school work, obviously, and gaming as well. Should I aim for 1 gig or 2? Should I look into over clocking Ram? I just don't know! I'm new getting into building my own rig (I've made some simple ones when I was a kid but nothing extreme) but I want to learn more and be able to know what I'm doing. I'm pretty clueless on this, but if someone could give me some pointers, recommendations, or point me in the right direction it would be quite appreciated. Thanks much.
 
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Trizik

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What games do you play?

Generally speaking two 1GB sticks (totaling 2GB) with low timings (something like 2-3-3-5, first number being the most important) is a good way to go.
 
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Ansris

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I usually play MMORPGS (Warcraft for now but I'm waiting on Vanguard) and prolly will end up playing some Lan FPS while I'm at college, ala HL2 or whatever, but mostly MMO's. I've looked into the timings but cant find much. Do you have any recomendations?
 
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t3h l337 n3wb

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An FX-55 is kind of pointless now... I'd get an X2. It's about the same price, but dualcore could be more useful in the future. If you want to overclock your RAM, the OCZ Value VX RAM overclocks pretty well, and it's pretty cheap. If you're not going to overclock it, then the Corsair Value Select is really good-quality, and it's only about $80 for a 2x512MB pack. Get 2GB if you do heavy multitasking like video encoding, heavy photoshop use, etc. 1GB is fine for gaming.
 
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Trizik

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1GB is fine for WoW, HL2, and most other games, but some newer games like BF2 use more than 1GB.

2GB is getting to be the new standard. If you want to be prepared for the future (and even some of the present), get 2GB. Otherwise save your money and upgrade when it becomes necessary for you.
 
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Ansris

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Awesome, thank you both. I was planning for the future as you recomended as I want this to last me as long through college as I can. Do you think it'd be worth it overall to get the dual core chip though? I don't do much else other than game and regular school work on it but I'm going to a technology school and suppose I might run into some system intensive programs and If I'm gonna try and multi-task my school work and gaming would it be worth it to do?
 
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