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Which RAM?

Hey guys i have been looking into getting something pretty good but not the best machine i can get or anything. The most intensive tasks will be games. Here is what i'm thinking about so far:
3200+ Venice processor (can easily be overclocked to 2.8 from 2.0 from what i hear, which i plan to try)
I can't decide what kind of ram is the best and most bang for my buck
This one (i would get 4 sticks)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146883
Or this one (2 sticks)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227209

I have been looking to the 6800GT (haven't decided on the company yet)

This case
http://www.techonweb.com/products/productdetail.aspx?id=B73523&src=FG

Antec neopower 480W PS

and the DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

I also currently have 2 brand new Raptor 74 gb which i can raid but i haven't touched them yet so let me know if i should sell them and use the money for a better solution

Please tell me if you disagree with any of my decisions or have any suggestions or anything.

Thank you very much for your help
 
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entropy1982

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I am getting the Venice 3200+ and plan on OCing it to about 2700 from 2000.
There will be a lot of games being played on this machine
The motherboard will be the Lanparty

My first question is whether i should get 2GB of ram instead of 1GB (I hear that extra gig of RAM really helps)

Secondly Will me getting 4X512 Slow anything down? I hear that it's better to get 2X1GB than 4X512 but the OCZ Rev2 doesnt come in 2GB for example.

Please help,
any suggestions are greatly appreciated
 
hi, srry for interrupting in the thread but since were on the subject of which ram to get, i was wondering wat u guys reccomend to get for my system, i have an athlon xp 2000+ and is going to be put on an asus a7n8x deluxe mother board, i was looking into getting 2x512mb but don't know wat brand? thx in advance.
 
vegitto do you think that would perform better than 2 gigs of a slower ram (3200) I read somewhere that filling up all 4 slots slows it down for some reason so if i ever upgrade that ram to 4 gigs i would fill up all 4 or is that untrue?
 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
vegitto do you think that would perform better than 2 gigs of a slower ram (3200) I read somewhere that filling up all 4 slots slows it down for some reason so if i ever upgrade that ram to 4 gigs i would fill up all 4 or is that untrue?
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Yes, this is 2x 512, not 2x 1 GB. You will be unable to find a good stick of 1 GB RAM, sorry about that.
 
Would having 4 sticks in there decrease performance in any way? i have heard that it does for some reason.

Also, do you think that having 2X1GB is more efficient for games than 1GB of better ram?
 
Originally posted by: entropy1982
Would having 4 sticks in there decrease performance in any way? i have heard that it does for some reason.

Also, do you think that having 2X1GB is more efficient for games than 1GB of better ram?
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Yes, there is no real overclocking guarantee, and 4 sticks of ram quadruples your chance of having a dud.

Also, 2x1 GB is only useful if you play Battlefield 2. In any other game, it could even decrease performance.
 
Venice, unlike previous revisions, allows you to run more than two memory modules at > DDR333 speeds, but still only at 2T.
If the games you intend to play are going to consume 1GB of ram, then it would make sense to get an addition GB, since any performance penalty incurred by running your modules at 2T timing would be more than off-set by the performance penalty incurred in going to the swapfile.
However.
If you plan to overclock your memory, then you may find that 4 modules won't reach the same speeds as 2, as you are doubling the chances of memory failure (rather like RAID 0 doulbles the chances of HD failure).
I'd wait a while and go for 2X1GB.

Vegitto: Care to explain that reference to London in your sig.?

 
Originally posted by: BitByBit
Venice, unlike previous revisions, allows you to run more than two memory modules at > DDR333 speeds, but still only at 2T.
If the games you intend to play are going to consume 1GB of ram, then it would make sense to get an addition GB, since any performance penalty incurred by running your modules at 2T timing would be more than off-set by the performance penalty incurred in going to the swapfile.
However.
If you plan to overclock your memory, then you may find that 4 modules won't reach the same speeds as 2, as you are doubling the chances of memory failure (rather like RAID 0 doulbles the chances of HD failure).
I'd wait a while and go for 2X1GB.

Vegitto: Care to explain that reference to London in your sig.?
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It's a joke. You never read qdb.us?
 
get value ram (1GBx2), so you can have the 1T command rate. Then use a divider and hopefully you have a good chip.
 
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