Which Ram do i get with this setup?

YankeezXBA

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im going to be using

ASUS "P4C800 DELUXE" i875P
Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz

i wanted 1 GB of ram i was wondering what i should go with i dont plan on OC'ing but i wouldnt mind having ram that gives me the option to OC it sometime down the road....if that makes sense

only wanna spend around like $270 or less on ram

Thanks
 

OdiN

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OCZ has some nice stuff for that price range. I would get 500MHz RAM, that will leave you room to overclock some....but with that CPU you probably won't be able to OC all that much...not to 250MHz FSB (1GHz Quad Pumped) which is the matching speed to DDR500.
 

YankeezXBA

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Originally posted by: OdiN
OCZ has some nice stuff for that price range. I would get 500MHz RAM, that will leave you room to overclock some....but with that CPU you probably won't be able to OC all that much...not to 250MHz FSB (1GHz Quad Pumped) which is the matching speed to DDR500.

so should i go with pc3500 or pc3200
 

Gurck

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pc3200 matches your fsb, pc3500 will give you a bit of breathing room if you want to try OCing.
 

YankeezXBA

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Originally posted by: Gurck
pc3200 matches your fsb, pc3500 will give you a bit of breathing room if you want to try OCing.

what do u reccomend im buyin my stuff from newegg so a link would be nice :D

crucial? corsair? mushkin?
 

Gurck

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if you don't want to overclock and/or tweak, any cheap pc3200 ram is fine. Kingston valueram would do nicely, especially considering current ram prices. Faster (pc3500+) ram will allow for some overclocking, while lower latencies will allow you to play with timings in hopes of performance increases... OTOH if your motherboard will do a 5:4 ratio (fsb:ram) you can oc with pc3200, but then of course, you're not overclocking your ram. IMO to get a noticeable overclock you have to fiddle too much and combat too much of a heat problem, and games tend to be more gpu-limited than cpu anyway... It's one thing if you enjoy overclocking and tweaking your system, but if you're just looking for performance gains the majority of that is the hardware you have in the first place, not how much you overclock it.
 

SilentZero

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in my experience corsair works great with that board. But as said above, if your not OCing, you don't really need top-notch ram.