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Ram Advice

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Tsuwamono

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I could use some ram advice. its for my current 939 system. Im going to give my mushkin PC3200 ram to my girlfriend in hopes that i can actually overclock my system if i have better ram and i want dual channel aswell.

Could someone give me a few links to some and possibly a guide to what the hell the timings mean and what a good example is.
 
ya. Im not sure what to get. anything i should know about timings? Like to stay away from certain sets or something. Like should i make sure the numbers are all close together or just make sure they are all low numbers or something? how do i tell?
 
Originally posted by: Tsuwamono
ya. Im not sure what to get. anything i should know about timings? Like to stay away from certain sets or something. Like should i make sure the numbers are all close together or just make sure they are all low numbers or something? how do i tell?
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lower numbers in the timings are better. Stock is becomming scarce so it's hard to just give you a model and you go find it because it may not be available.

Anything from OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, G.Skill, or Patriot is good.
 
ok, the timings you have, are those good? because i found some that i liked that are 2.5-3-3-7 and i wasnt sure if that was good or not
 
if you get ddr400, the best timings are 2-2-2-5, but 2-3-2-6 is OK. If you get ddr500 the best timins are the ones you listed, maybe 2-3-2-7. Patriot and ocz make some great, low latency (and formerly cost effective) RAM. The timings are just the amount of cycles it takes for the RAM to do a certain process. I'm not sure what the different latencies refer to though.
Here's a link this RAM used to be $89 back like 4 months ago.
 
Originally posted by: Tsuwamono
ok, the timings you have, are those good? because i found some that i liked that are 2.5-3-3-7 and i wasnt sure if that was good or not
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My timings are for DDR2 memory which offers more bandwidth but higher latency (i.e higher timings). So it's a tradeoff.
 
its my Mushkin Extremeline PC3200 stick. By the way. When i first built my PC i had 2x 1GB sticks(not dual channel, i bought them seperately because i found money afterwards) and another 1 GB that my dad got me for christmas. Well my dad got me Mushkin Greenline and i got my self the 2 Extremelines. Well my friend didnt have any ram and i didnt want to have 3GB because thats just odd. So i gave him what i thought was the greenline. Turns out, i gave him one of my extremelines and i kept 1 extremeline and a greenline without noticing. I took out the greenline so now im running at only 1GB. Honestly though, there isnt much difference i find.

Anyway ya... its a PC3200 (ddr400)
 
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