Author Topic: Ram (Read 587 times)

SKurj · « **Reply #15 on:** September 04, 2003, 10:57:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Sox62
Whether or not you plan to overclock,you'll see a performance hit with the CL3 vs the CL2.

But $150 worth?

Will I see a difference of 5fps or 20fps? for 5 or 10 .. $150 isn't worth it..

SKurj

Sox62 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 05, 2003, 12:32:38 AM »

I just checked Newegg.

512 MB's of Kingston Hyper X PC3200 CL3 is $101.

512 MB's of Kingston Hyper X PC3500 CL2 is $125.

Where is the $150 difference?

And PC 3200 is the minimum you want to run with this motherboard.Any slower and the memory will be slower than the FSB of the motherboard,making the system even slower.

If he is going to buy a gig of memory,the extra $50 dollars for the CL2 3500 is worth it imho.He'll be running between 5-10% faster,and the CL2 3500 leaves a lot of headroom to overclock.

SKurj · « **Reply #17 on:** September 05, 2003, 01:31:22 PM »

Where I shop (i do not shop online for this stuff i buy local)

$125 x 2 = 250, Apacer CL3 ram DDR400 (i can get ram for as low as $113 ea if i wish to drive abit further)

$199 x 2 = 398, CL2 ram DDR400

These are canadian dollars.

SKurj

Sox62 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2003, 11:03:34 AM »

Ok,just call me stupid-I never noticed your location...duh.

I prefer to shop local also,except for mobo's,ram,and cpu's.The price difference is just too great for me.

You really ought to consider newegg and see how much you might save on Kingston or Corsair.They're reputable,and I have purchased two mobo's and two cpu's from them and haven't had a problem.

Either way,good luck.I didn't mean to start an argument,and for that I apologize.