PC4000 vs PC3200

[rsatat]

Hi, I just picked up an Opteron 170. Need to decide on RAM
Is PC3200 better or PC4000? Sorry if it is a dumb question, searched the forums but didnt find a similar query.

I'm deciding between
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231021

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231032

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146397

Thanks.

 

[MustISO]

PC3200 is fine unless you want to OC. Then you may want to get something rated higher.

 

[stevty2889]

PC4000 would allow you to run up to 250mhz FSB with the mem at 1:1, with PC3200 you would have to use a divider to OC, but AMD chips arent bandwidth starved anyway, so it's really up to you. Thats a pretty decent price for the PC4000, I paid that much for my 2GB of PC3200 OCZ platinum.

 

[rsatat]

I dont intend OC'ing at all cause I wouldnt know what to do and I cannot afford another opteron incase i screw it up.

Also are all mobo's compatible with PC4000 and PC3200? - Thanks

 

[ribbon13]

More like all PC4000 modules are PC3200 compatible.

I'd take the mushkin out of those three.

 

[rsatat]

Thank you ribbon13. Ordering the Mushkin now at newegg.

 

[Diasper]

Dual-core does actually benefit from higher fsb actually. Anandtech did some tests a while back showing that. Heck, that's part of the reason AMD is moving to DDR2 667 - because there is some improvement while leaving scaling opportunities for quad core etc