Ram: ValueSelect or Premium?!

[mad0maxx]

Well if you had the choice between OCZ Platinum or OCZ Valueselect, what would you choose and why? Considering money is not an option. Is there a large increase in speeds between the two?

Also Platinum is better then Titanium right?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

If you mean the OCZ PC4000 EB Platinum then YES, oh god, YES!
Awesome 2GB kit (I own it -- cost 325 @ launch!)

 

[mwmorph]

p4 or amd64? the valueselect and platnium will give you only a minimal difference if you are running a amd.

 

[mad0maxx]

Well right now I was just wondering... I am waiting till the Intel Conroe's come out before I build me a new computer...

But thanks for all the replies...

 

[NaOH]

You have patience my friend.

 

[furballi]

Corsair Value Select (2 x 512) can hit 230MHz FSB at DDR400 2.5-3-3-6-1T at stock voltage. The Corsair Value Select 1GB module runs at 250MHz with 2.7Vdimm.

Both are available for about $68.

You can run the FSB at 300MHz with the 5:6 memory divider and the VS 1GB module.

 

[mad0maxx]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
You have patience my friend.

Well I will be using loan money from school to pay for the computer and I do not wanna get a computer I need to upgrade anytime soon ^_^

 

[NaOH]

Soon is probably 6 months.

 

[mad0maxx]

Originally posted by: AMDUALY
Soon is probably 6 months.

I remember from a couple threads I do not know the posters names but one said...

People buy the top of the line computers and drop of the planet for 2 years then come back to the AT forums

It is not word for word but that described me when I got my last computer lol

 

[AsianriceX]

If going AMD, it really depends on if you plan on overclocking.

If you're overclocking, the faster ram will give you more headroom with the option of looser timings.
If you're running stock, there's no reason to spend the extra money since there is negligible difference between the two performance wise.

I'm running some Corsair ValueSelect with my X2 4200+ and haven't looked back.

 

[NaOH]

I'm running my 3800 X2 using 2x512mb of corsair value ddr400 select and it works fine. Although, with overclocking, I only managed to get it running stable at 220mhz. I would only buy the premium makes if I were to overclock, which I definitely will do when I upgrade to 2x1gb.

 

[mad0maxx]

Yeah I plan to run everything stock... I do not like to overclock any of my products unless it is included in the features list like ATI's Overdrive function in the Catalyst Control Center...

So I guess when I go buy some ram I will get the valueselect stuff...

Also is it worth it to buy heat spreaders for the ram?

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
Yeah I plan to run everything stock... I do not like to overclock any of my products unless it is included in the features list like ATI's Overdrive function in the Catalyst Control Center...

So I guess when I go buy some ram I will get the valueselect stuff...

Also is it worth it to buy heat spreaders for the ram?

heatspreaders is decoration and actually hurts ram cooling since it adds another (inefficent)heat transfer layer before the heat can be dissapated. It is just there to get noobs to buy the cooler looking ram.

 

[NaOH]

I bought heatspreaders for a stick of value select and it actually damaged it by heat issues. Silly me....

 

[batmanuel]

If you're buying six months out, then all discussion of the differences between types of DDR RAM is pretty much a moot point, since any system you are build then will be using DDR2 667 most likely. At this point no one really knows how much of a difference RAM latency makes with the next-gen processors. AM2 is likely to be just as insensitve to latency differences as the current s939 platform is, but no one has really had a chance to play around with Conroe enough to see how it responds to the difference between running at 5-5-5-12 and 3-3-3-12.

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
Yeah I plan to run everything stock... I do not like to overclock any of my products unless it is included in the features list like ATI's Overdrive function in the Catalyst Control Center...

Yeah, but the TDP on the new processors coming out is so low that the processors are just begging us to OC them. Also, a lot of nForce boards support auto-overclocking with NV Tune.