Memory questions...

[quizzelsnatch]

I'm building an Athlon 64 socket 939 system, and I was wondering what the best investment in ram would be.
I was thinking of getting either 2x512 of the G.Skill PC-4400, the Geil Value RAM, or the Corsair XMS.



Corsair:
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-145-420&depa=0

Geil:
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-144-305&depa=0

G.Skill
http://www.newegg.com/app/view...amp;manufactory=BROWSE


Thanks for any advice.


p.s. it would be nice to save money to spend on other equipment, like a faster processor or video card or better speakers

 

[Tyrant222]

g-skill or the patriot stuff

i am at a point where if i dont get the best now i end up buying it later so these days i tend to splurge

 

[Insidious]

That choice is going to depend on how you planning on running your system... are you happy at stock speeds? Do you overclock?

CAS latency = 2 (the corsair) is a significant increase in speed over the others.

-Sid

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
g-skill or the patriot stuff

i am at a point where if i dont get the best now i end up buying it later so these days i tend to splurge

how is CAS = 2.5 "better" than CAS = 2 ????

 

[quizzelsnatch]

I think I might want to overclock... but if buying cheaper RAM allows me to get a faster processer and not have a need to overclock, that'd be nice.

 

[Insidious]

I don't really know what you mean by "need to overclock"

Hard to imaging an A64 with 1G of RAM falling short of anything but a buddies benchmark perhaps....

Probably the best place to start here is to decide what you want

-Sid

 

[ssvegeta1010]

Originally posted by: Insidious

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
g-skill or the patriot stuff

i am at a point where if i dont get the best now i end up buying it later so these days i tend to splurge

how is CAS = 2.5 "better" than CAS = 2 ????

The G Skill is rated at CAS 2.5 at PC 4400 (DDR 550), whereas the Corsair is CAS 2 at PC 3200 (DDR 400).

The G Skill could definitely do PC 3200 at CAS 2 (i.e. the G Skill is better)

 

[Kccdx2]

The partiot XBL is also Cas2

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: ssvegeta1010

Originally posted by: Insidious

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
g-skill or the patriot stuff

i am at a point where if i dont get the best now i end up buying it later so these days i tend to splurge

how is CAS = 2.5 "better" than CAS = 2 ????

The G Skill is rated at CAS 2.5 at PC 4400 (DDR 550), whereas the Corsair is CAS 2 at PC 3200 (DDR 400).

The G Skill could definitely do PC 3200 at CAS 2 (i.e. the G Skill is better)

Alot of assumptions there, but it sounds good to me (you do know this is screened PC3200 ram... right?)

 

[quizzelsnatch]

I'm more about getting a better price/performance ratio than just all out performance. Will the G.Skill give me that much more performance over something like the Corsair?

 

[Kccdx2]

No, but the price is about the same, well actually the G.Skill 4400 is like 20-30 cheaper than the Corsair XMS LL that which goes from like 280(?). And since the Gskill is better, why not? Btw, if your gonna get Athlon 64 939 Processor, then your gonna wanna OC, which implies get the G.Skill =)