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More or better quality? completely stumped...

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Stonin

Junior Member
Hi all,

First post here so bear with me please if this has been done a million times before .

I've been looking into high end gaming performance recently as its time I upgraded...and no, its not for Doom 3

There is one question I can't seem to get answered though and I thought I'd throw it to the forums and see if anyone can shed any light on it for me:

Is it better to have more or higher quality memory?

The example I was thinking of is 1gb of Mushkin or OCZ PC3700 vs 2gb of PC 3700 a.n.other brand. I know i'm likely to get more faulty stuff/higher latency with the cheaper memory but given I can get enough sticks of it working it would save me 1/3 of my total memory cost and double the amount I have....

There's a gold star and a chocolate chip cookie for the person with the correct answer
 
2GB is worthless for gaming. I would just go with 1 GB of high quality that you know is compatible with your motherboard.
 
It's not really a very good question...

As far as "higher quality" memory, I wouldn't use anything besides Corsair, Mushkin, or OCZ's EL series (or Kingston Hyper-X if I just wanted to waste money). So quality shouldn't be an issue. You shouldn't get crappy memory.

I think you actually mean speed, and in that case I have to ask what speed are you referring to? PC3700 is useless unless you're overclocking. The important thing would be the latancy.

I would always try to get Corsair CL 2.5 as a minimum for any machine, just because you don't have to pay much more for the quality of Corsair, and you don't have to pay much more for CL 2.5 vs. CL 3. In my opinion, it is always worth it to get Corsair CL 2.5.

Now on to the question of how much memory. Let's say you're going to spend $170 on memory, obviously you'd be better off with 2 x 512MB Corsair CL 2.5 instead of a single 512MB stick of Corsair XMS CL 2-2-2. There just isn't much difference between CL 2.5 and CL 2, especially on an AMD machine.

But in your case, you're asking about 1 GB vs. 2 GB. If you're looking at gaming performance, you're not going to get really anything at all out of having 2 GB, so I would get 1 GB of the best memory you can afford.

You are mentioning Mushkin and OCZ as your name-brand choices, though. OCZ's EL series memory is great, but their cheaper memory just doesn't stack up to the cheaper stuff by Corsair and Mushkin. This is definitely the memory I would be getting in that price range:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-026
 
Look, I'll be direct and make this very simple: you, personally, do not need 2gb of RAM. 1gb of RAM is going to be overkill for just about 99.999% of the people viewing this forum. Thus, I'd go for the Mushkin. Mushkin is a solid RAM, they have good support.
 
Thanks for the replies all 🙂

The memory I am currently considering is http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=71474

Seems to be a good brand and reasonably priced. I am looking to do a little overclocking hence the PC3700 upwards...well that and the fact that it seems to cost more in the UK for slower memory 😛

My question actually arose from reading the min specs on a few upcoming MMOG's (specifically EQ2 and WoW surprise surprise). Many are now stating 1gb of Ram as something you need for good performance and I wondered if having 2gb would help even more.

*Sigh* I wish the availability of high end components was a little better here in the UK, I've been trying to find a few products with no success at all. Just in case anyone's interested these are the other bits i'm trying to find:

Muskin 2-2-2 special - seemingly impossible for me to find the dual kits at the speed I want
6800 GT - any brand atm would do...everywhere sold out
MSI K8N Neo2 - not even listed in the UK yet...then again seems not to be listed anywhere so maybe its not released yet 😛
Gigabyte K8NsNXP-939 - sold out everywhere i look

I was extremely lucky to come into a little money but for the life of me I can't seem to spend it lol.
 
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