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new rig... memory question

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bplamondon

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This is the machine Im building at the end of the summer. Suggestions are welcome and I have one question below.

[EDIT] Changed to Northwood.

P4 3.0C 800FSB
ASUS P4S800E Deluxe
1Gb Corsair XMS Twinx1024 Ultra low latency PC3200 DDR (2-2-2-5)
ATI X800 Pro 256Mb GDDR3 (Or should I go with a nVidia card?)
WD 74Gb 10000RPM SATA HD
Chenming Silver Server Case w/ Window
MGE Vigor 500W PSU (2 fans, nylon wrapped Cables)
SONY CD Burner (52x32x52x)
NEC Dual Layer DVD Burner (8x RW+/-)
Thermalike AquariusII Liquid Cooling

Im wondering if say 2Gb of a value ram would be better than the 1Gb of the Cosair I have listed up there. Any other ideas not memory related are welcome but try not to go too insane as Im close to my cost limit as it is.
 
Drop the Prescott and stick with Northwood. They run a lot cooler and are faster than equivalently clocked Prescotts.

You will not see the improvement going from 1GB to 2GB unless you do certain tasks; for example, if you worked with 700MB image files in Photoshop, you could load the entire image to memory by making the scratch disk on a virtual drive.
 
K, Ill switch to northwood (what is the purpose of prescott chips then?)

I dont really do much image, video or sound editing... so stick with the 1Gb low latency Corsair then?
 
The purpose of Prescott was to piss off consumers.

Stick with the Corsair that you have right now if you don't plan on overclocking.

If you do plan on overclocking, get some higher latency DDR500. P4 CPUs can only be overclocked via raising the FSB, and they perform better with higher bus speeds vs. lower latency.
 
So if I do overclock, what memory would you recommend that would be in the 350 or less price range

Oh and thanks for the advice thus far.
 
Yes, that's a good one. The Asus P4P800-E Deluxe is also another good one.
 
Thats true it does only"support DDR400mhz" However you can take your P4P800E FSB upto at least 300mhz or DDR 600 and it shouldn't have a problem.
 
I considered it but Id rather stick with an intel chip for now... gaming is one of the purposes hence the nice vid card but not the only purpose.
 
Originally posted by: bplamondon
I considered it but Id rather stick with an intel chip for now... gaming is one of the purposes hence the nice vid card but not the only purpose.
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what are your reasons? sorry if im pushing you, im just an AMD fanboy. the athlon64 beats the intel chip in everything except for encoding. so if you encode 24/7, i can understand.
 
what about the whole dual channel memory thing (I heard that it works with socket 939 but that is way to expensive for me) doesnt that affect it?

Im interesting in hearing your views, as Im relatively unaware of AMD...

I know their stuff is more powerful, but on the budget Im on, I have a couple concerns
 
Originally posted by: bplamondon
what about the whole dual channel memory thing (I heard that it works with socket 939 but that is way to expensive for me) doesnt that affect it?

Im interesting in hearing your views, as Im relatively unaware of AMD...

I know their stuff is more powerful, but on the budget Im on, I have a couple concerns
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take a look through this article.

socket 754 doesnt use dual channel DDR. but that doesnt make a big difference at all.
 
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