Faster of bigger memory?

[DoctorJones]

Hi guys, new in the forum...

I'm building my new PC bassicaly for PhotoShop works and I'm in a pretty reduced budget, so I can't afford PC3700 or PC4000 OCZ mems or others like that.

Till now, I'll get the P4P800 mobo and a 2.4c M0 or 2.6c D1 CPU (please read my other post Faster of bigger memory? if you can help me with that also 🙂 )...

But... what about the memory? Good memory (OCZ and Kingston HyperX, the only ones that I can get here) is around twice ($/Mb) than "generic" ones (so called here), but, according to this useful post Overclocking and Benchmarking: CPU, DDR or both? the real impact is not so huge as could be a CPU OC'ing, but... what happens with the temp and the stability if I run, i.e. 265 or 290 FSB (424MHz and 464 MHz even at 5:4 ratio) on PC3200?

As the difference in the price between a "generic" one and OCZ/Kingston HyperX one is so huge, I considered using 2x512Mb regular ones or even Kingston Value Ram (PhotoShop is a nice "memory eating" program:yummy: ) instead of 2x256 OCZ for almost the same price, but, as I said above, I'm not sure about the stability and the OC'ing possibilities of this first option. What do U think?

Also, will "not paired" regular memories will work fine in a Dual Channel config? Or should I go anyway to a Kingston Kit or OCZ DCh optimized?

And last...will all the different flavours of OCZ (Performance, Premier, Basic, EL, Platinum,...) will show me any big difference between them (regardless of my pocket...🙂 ) or a Premier one will be OK?

Oh, one last one.... What about cheap ones (Generic or Kingston VR) with a Vantec HS?

TIA for your help,

DoctorJones

 

[WobbleWobble]

Photoshop definately likes more memory.

I never saw the value of buying PC3500,3700,4000 memory so I always stuck to regular PC3200.

I've never had any problems with the cheaper value sticks of RAM. Infineon, Samsung, Kingston ValueRAM and such have all worked for the systems I have built. If you can't afford the faster memory, don't get it 🙂

Just O/C your P4 system with a divider and value memory will be fine. Sure 1:1 is faster, but we can't always afford the fastest systems. I know I can't 😉

As for the dual channel thing, I've used 2 sticks of identical RAM (not in a kit though) on the P4P800-DX and they've always worked fine for the couple of P4P800's I've built. I wouldn't worry about it as long as they're identical.

I know some people are going to come in recommending Buffalo and such, but I haven't had experience with it so I can't say. It's not available in my area. That's what I get for living in an igloo (Canadian joke).