Dual DDR 3200 Ram suggestions?

[mnarciso]

Ok its time for me to buy new RAM. My GF's RAM is no longer compatible with her new computer and I was going to hand her down my Corsair 1 GB 2700LLPT.

I've been in the market for a new pair of RAM. Now there is a big difference in price with latency timings does that make a big performance difference? After all I can't count nano's so I'm wondering if its really hard to see a difference then I'd definitely be down for a high latency pair of RAM as long as there is no difference.

I've been buying Corsair ever since my first computer. However, recently when buying Corsair I find that one module is bad and its kind of a pain to RMA a module. That is not the quality I come to expect from Corsair especially since prices for Corsair are so high.

I was looking at the Kingston's HyperX line and that seems promising but the price difference is all in the latency timings. Outpost has this RAM for 189 with 20 dollar mail in rebate...

Kingston 1GB HyperX Outpost.com

Keep in mind I am a gamer too =).

Suggestions anyone?

 

[JanGroothuijse]

As a gamer you might want to have 2-2-2-6 latency modules, but if you realy are a gamer, you ahve a budget to consider

What would would be best is easy, high bandwidth, low lantency, but if it REALY helps, depents on 2 things,
1, The games you play, are they new, is it Doom3?
2, Do you have a Pentium4 ,;in that case latency can be taken lightly, or a Athlon XP; same, or a Athlon 64 wich has its speed because of its low latency on the die memory controller, in that case it does make a huge diffirence.

You can imagine Quake 3 Arena does not care as much about latency as Doom 3, to wich your ram is somesort of cache.
And you can also imagine that wenn a memory subsystem has allready got 0,00000015 seconds delay, than ading 0,00000001 wont make that much of a diffirence, but wenn (athlon 64) it has 0,00000002 seconds delay for the cpu to reach to its ram then adding 0,00000001 DOES make a diffirence.

For brand, i would not go with Corsair Cursial OCZ, because they seem to be to expensive, (perhaps just in my country) but Twinmos Adata or even Kingston are just fine, just look at the speeds, but if you will be overclocking, than i recommend you take a DDR500 Module, from, Adata or Kingston, and you can set the latency realy low in DDR400 speeds, or crank up CPU speed (remember that 2,5/250 is the same as 2/200 so DDR500-2,5-2-3-9 could be just as low in latency as DDR400-2-2-2-6)

I hope other people will either correct me or confirm what i've said, so, good luck, and think before you buy.

Cheers

 

[mnarciso]

I alway think before I buy which is why I come here =) to have great thinkers who think alike! I have a P4 3.4 Ghz Prescott. I don't overclock, I've tried that and I'm just not build to do that. My motherboard doesn't offer very good overclocking. DDR400 would be just fine with me. I think I will go with Kingston. If anyone has any other suggestions please feel free to post.