More what ram!

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18-05-2005, 10:03 AM
Trippledence

More what ram!

A freind of mine is building a bit of a beasty gaming rig, and looking to get 2X1gb stickss in dual channel. The world of ram seemes totaly baffeling to be, other than looking at speeds?

Any recomendations?
18-05-2005, 10:05 AM
noah

this is some of the quickest you'll find at 2-3-2-5
18-05-2005, 10:29 AM
Trippledence

The link didnt take me strait to a product, did you mean the corsair tiwn X, on the front page.

Theres some paired gig sticks http://tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604635 ther.
18-05-2005, 10:50 AM
noah

oh, sorry, nah i mean the patriot low latency 2x1gb sticks, ive read some good reviews of patroit stuff

edit: link fixed i think
18-05-2005, 12:50 PM
Trippledence

Sent the link onto my mate, thanks. Any other idears?
18-05-2005, 01:24 PM
ikonia

I got 2 x 1 gb crucial balistix pair sims.

They run nice and fast, don't know if they are the fastest, but they run fast enough for me.
18-05-2005, 03:02 PM
Smokey21

Quote:

Originally Posted by noahhowes

this is some of the quickest you'll find at 2-3-2-5

Thats seems really good man!!! Cheap and nice timmings.
18-05-2005, 04:40 PM
grimpy

i just got 2Gb DDR PC3200 OCZ EL Platinum Dual Channel kit.

(2x 1Gb EL DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum), 400Mhz, 184 pins, CL 2-3-2-5 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS) Rating, EL DDR IC 4.5 ns, w/ Platinum Coated Heatspreaders, Dual Channel

£250
18-05-2005, 05:05 PM
nvening

mmmmmmmmmmmm 2gb ey, tempting
18-05-2005, 05:44 PM
Trippledence

Gotta have someting to go with a 4000+, man I wish this was my computer.
19-05-2005, 04:58 AM
StormPC

2GB=A complete waste for games.
19-05-2005, 08:32 AM
ikonia

thats a very good point stromPC

With 2 gig of ram my PC still only uses about 700 meg (200 OS 500 games)
19-05-2005, 09:23 AM
grimpy

Quote:

Originally Posted by StormPC

2GB=A complete waste for games.

how can you say that when the producer of bf2 has already stated that in order to get the best out of the game your need 2gigs of ram.

and if you ever had 2gigs of ram you`d see that games do run a hell of alot better with 2.
19-05-2005, 10:03 AM
arthurleung

Quote:

Originally Posted by mg1973

how can you say that when the producer of bf2 has already stated that in order to get the best out of the game your need 2gigs of ram.

and if you ever had 2gigs of ram you`d see that games do run a hell of alot better with 2.

You may not need it but quite a lot of people do. My ram usage is 1226MB now with 24 MSN windows, 2 P2P progies, a few explorer windows, firefox, irc, rdp, etc and a 256m VM. The remaining 310m barely enough for me to start some xvid encodings, I remember HL2 @ 1600x1200 draws 700m of memory. Swapping really LAGS.