Please help me pick some RAM

[nombrecinq]

I have the Asus x800xl PCI, and the rest of the parts I'm buying either this week or in early August. I was planning on getting an AMD64 3800+ but I'm wondering if anybody thinks I should wait for a price drop because the new dualies are coming out.

What kind of RAM should I get for this machine? I don't plan to overclock right now but maybe sometime in the future. I was thinking Crucial, OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, etc but I don't know too much about that stuff. Crucial has been good to me in the past but I want to get the best low latency stuff possible. Oh yeah I'm also getting an Antec P180 case and I'd like to get the Samsung 19" 193P+ LCD if it ever comes down in price.

 

[mOeeOm]

Getting 3800+ Venice/New Castle(only ones I believe that make it) is silly, get the San diego 3700+, because it has a 1MB cache over the 3800+'s 512kb cache...so it will be faster and cheaper.

 

[nombrecinq]

The 2.0 GHz dual cores are coming out August 1st, don't you think that's going to dramatically change the prices of every single core?

 

[furballi]

Go with the 3000 Venice and overclock the system to 2.3GHz using Corsair Value Select RAM. Use 5:6 memory divider. This should be plenty fast until the expensive dual core CPUs come down in price.

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: furballi
Go with the 3000 Venice and overclock the system to 2.3GHz using Corsair Value Select RAM. Use 5:6 memory divider. This should be plenty fast until the expensive dual core CPUs come down in price.

He is not OCing right now like me 🙂.

 

[mOeeOm]

Originally posted by: nombrecinq
The 2.0 GHz dual cores are coming out August 1st, don't you think that's going to dramatically change the prices of every single core?

If you think the drop will help you, then wait, I personally don't seem them dropping, because games that utilize X2 havn't really started coming out, and don't expect a massive drop in price. Meh, if you want to take it safe, wait. BUT, if you decide on not OCing and going with a single core, san diego 3700+ is the best path to go. I want to buy a 3000+ and OC it...but my rig will be shared between me and brother, he doesn't want to OC...and since he paying half...what can I do 🙁. But if you are alone, I would do 3000+ and OC, and wait for X2 to become cheap and be used more.

 

[BOLt]

Originally posted by: nombrecinq
I have the Asus x800xl PCI, and the rest of the parts I'm buying either this week or in early August. I was planning on getting an AMD64 3800+ but I'm wondering if anybody thinks I should wait for a price drop because the new dualies are coming out.

What kind of RAM should I get for this machine? I don't plan to overclock right now but maybe sometime in the future. I was thinking Crucial, OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, etc but I don't know too much about that stuff. Crucial has been good to me in the past but I want to get the best low latency stuff possible. Oh yeah I'm also getting an Antec P180 case and I'd like to get the Samsung 19" 193P+ LCD if it ever comes down in price.

I highly recommend the Dell 1905FP. You can get it at an unbelievable price if you catch the right Dell deal (I'd pick it up for around $350 or less). Anandtech has reviews a-plenty that prove it's a great, great monitor.

IMO, the dual core AMD64 3800+ is worth waiting for. Great price point for such an amazing proc (well, two). Apparently Revision E CPUs support DDR500... might consider that.

Good case choice! Please don't hestitate to post your impression of it when you get it.

 

[nombrecinq]

I don't buy Dell anymore. They have crummy customer service and they tried to rip me off. Problem with that Samsung is it's about $600. If I could get it for around $400 I'd do it.

 

[nombrecinq]

The current AMD64 CPUs use DDR400 right? If I get a dual processor AMD at 2.0 GHz and I use the faster DDR500 RAM, how will that compare to a 2.4 GHz single core with DDR400?