Memory

[Albereth]

Thinking about upgrading the memory in the old computer. I have 2GB of Corsair value memory and was wondering what is the best to go for.

Thoughts

[Ruslan74]

Hey Alb, could you post some specs of the mobo so we have an idea of what RAM would work best on it.

[rainy]

Corsair is pretty good stuff. I don't know much about RAM, but would always buy either Kingston, Infineon or Corsair. Don't buy Legend - I have 1Gb of that stuff and it doesn't run properly at DDR400 although specified for it...

[TG]

I'm also using 2gb of that corsair value ram.
Have no issues with it.

[Ruslan74]

Corsair XMS with the heatsinks are very nice to overclock... had them running @ 223mhz at one stage without hiccups!

could go further but i would need liquid nitrogen for the CPU...

[FeralBanana]

I only have 512mb Pick 'n Pay No Name brand...

My comp actually sucks quite bad...

[Albereth]

MoBo is ASUS A8N-SLi Deluxe - have 3800 64 chip and 6800GT GPU. And 2GB corsair value. HD is SATA 300GB Maxtor with 16MB Cache. PSU is Antec Tru Blu II 500W server psu.

[Ruslan74]

is that îîîîîîîî your "old" computer?

[Brawler]

As far as I know there is very little if not any difference between Corsair Value and XMS for the average user. Its only worth it if you plan on overclocking. I had a nice link on my old PC which shows this, will try hunt it down.

I also got 2GB of Corsair ValueSelect, and my machine is pretty much kicking ass. For instance I am nearly always the first to load on BF2 which has its benefits I think a decent hdd has a lot to do with it also.

For the majority of users, the 1-2% benefit in performance when comparing Winbond to Samsung memory will go unnoticed. In fact, we would not advise anyone to spend a lot of money on highest end memory in the hope of improving computer performance by increasing memory speed. As noted earlier in the article, keeping the timings unchanged and at a steady CPU clock of 2.6 GHz, DDR600 performs 5% better than DDR400 in CPU/memory intensive applications. These are very weak gains given that there is a 50% increase in memory speed, and these gains are even smaller at lower CPU speeds. In modern games, which are mostly limited by the graphics card, the performance increase would be zero, as even big changes in CPU speed can go by unnoticed.

The bottom line is that as long as you have enough memory - preferably 2 GB - the extra money you pay for more memory speed would be better invested in a faster graphics card. And if you don't play games, then the CPU and hard drive offer more room for improvement than the memory.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/03/...k_frequencies/

[Albereth]

Okay - guess I need to look at some of those raptors after all