Trying to Upgrade/Tweak Old PC

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

either way if i buy ram that runs faster than the original 512mb then does this mean the new ram will run at the same speed as the original ram?

Yes. The best thing is to stick to RAM of the same speed to reduce potential issues.

[Iron Sights]

Aww CRAP!! I was just gonna order the mobo on ebuyer and its now outta stock and the cpu is coming tomorrow do you think it will come back in stock, I tried scan but its the same story there , I guess i should ring them up

[Iron Sights]

Ok, rang them up and they said that they would ring me back.

Btw Scan has some interesting ASUS today only motherboards with my plan to try and unlock the cores on the athlon 5000+ and possibly overclock it, which one seems best they are around £55 each which aint that far from my original £49 mobo.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

You will need to make sure that the motherboard has the SB710 or SB750 southbridge.

If you have an ATX case I would get the Asus M3A78-T which is on Today Only for around £56:

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

This motherboard was around £100 and has a very good IGP with dedicated RAM for the IGP!

The motherboard uses DDR2.

[Iron Sights]

Since i no longer get free shipping with ebuyer this leaves me with a few problems with getting the ram.

CCL have 2gb Kingston ddr2 800mhz at £34.80 (free next day shipping)

http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...=kvr800d2n6/2g

Just wanna know if its worth it, its just that people here usually recommend corsair or cruicial.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Since i no longer get free shipping with ebuyer this leaves me with a few problems with getting the ram.

CCL have 2gb Kingston ddr2 800mhz at £34.80 (free next day shipping)

http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...=kvr800d2n6/2g

Just wanna know if its worth it, its just that people here usually recommend corsair or cruicial.

What have you got so far and what do you need to get??

[Iron Sights]

Got the cpu, and psu

going to order the mobo from scan and just need the ram thats it

[scaryjim]

I've used Kingston in a number of previous builds, including a set of 12 office machines for a charity I used to work with. No issues with any of them.

[Iron Sights]

Hmm, ginger6, I have heard about them but anyway how about this


GEIL 2GB DDR2 800 CL5.0 16 CHIP BRUSH ALUMINUM RETAIL £32.62 inc shipping

http://www.ginger6.com/components-me...l-p-29276.html

So should i get this or the kingston one thats on ccl, or something else?

[Iron Sights]

Now Aria have this

2GB Crucial DDR2 6400

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=38585

Hmm now what??? Which to choose?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Geil is better RAM and I have a few of the Geil 1GB PC2-6400 and PC2-5300 DDR2 DIMMS lying about still.

[Iron Sights]

even better than the crucial one???

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have used Geil for years and I they make decent memory.

CCL have the same RAM for sale:

http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...id=gx22gb6400l

However Ebay maybe a better bet TBH!!

Edit!!

This PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM should do the job:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2GB-DDR-2-PC2-...item3efbafb631

Also there is also this PC2-8500 DDR2 RAM too:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kingston-Hyper...item2304a7031f

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kingston-Memor...item2ea9db0843

[Iron Sights]

so geil it is then.

It has an aluminium heat spreader so it should be better i guess unless i'm missing something

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

so geil it is then.

It has an aluminium heat spreader so it should be better i guess unless i'm missing something

Have you checked out those Ebay listings I added in the previous post??

Perhaps you could make an offer on the Kingston dual channel kit.

[Iron Sights]

fair enough the ebay ones are much better but i doubt they will reduce the price by much, might as well try but....

if they dont then out of the crucial or geil one, which is better, because i'm just confused now

edit: btw not heard much about dell are they good