Memory advice: Buy now for future upgrade

[Bjoern77]

I'm going to upgrade my pc in about 2-4 month, better - renew it. Budget is kinda low to midrange. Right now my idea is to buy a good motherboard & powersupply (eg ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi + Enermax infinity 620W) to have a good platform for later upgrades, a CPU in the 150? price range. GPU not more than 300?, though i'll wait on whats AMD up for with their 65nm midrange. I'm moderatly into overclocking, i'll take what i get without too much hassle, no need to push it to the max limit.

However with the memory price that low i am considering to buy some memory right now before it starts getting expensiv again, but i'm not sure which one and how much & i don't like to spend more than i'm currently planning for the cpu.

So what do you recommend? Some cheap 2gb DDR2 800 kit, or even 2x2gb? Or better some more expensive DDR2-1066?

I'm considering that one:
1x GeIL Ultra Dual Channel DDR2 Kit 2048MB PC2-6400U CL4-4-4-12 (DDR2-800) (GX22GB6400UDC) (83?), maybe even 2 of these, but i don't expect to run a 64bit OS, so the advantage of 2gb more ram is probably limited?

THX for any advice,

B.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Your prices are listed in euro so I assume you are in europe somewhere I'd suggest this kit http://www.memory-configurator.com/prod..._HZ_Series_Dual_Channel_kit/index.html

They ship worldwide and are based in the UK. I'd buy 4GB because the price is cheap and when you move to Vista (you probably will before you get a new system with DDR3) you'll definately benefit more from 64bit vs 32bit OS. I say get these sticks even though there are some cheaper ones because they overclock quite well and you won't be limited by them if you want to get a decent overclock from your CPU. DDR2-1000 is quite easy with these at relaxed timings or if you put a little more voltage into them they will do cas4 at 1000Mhz.