Ram for 100 quid

[Merlin4458]

Ive got 100 quid left to buy some ram for my new rig.

Im buying everything else from tekheads so i dont have to pay postage again for each site.

Could u pick me out some ram off their website for about 100 quid. looking for 2x 512 obviously ,

Or somewhere else if there is free delivery

cheers all

[unrealuniverse]

www.crucial.com/uk The ballistix RAM is pritty good stuff for about £59 per stick of 512MB free next day delivery is also included. if your budget cannot strech that far then on tekheads i would probably go for the corsair twinx 1GB (2x512) as it is one of the better manufacturers.

Hope this helps you.

[0iD]

http://www.pc-memory-upgrade.co.uk is good too. They stock prettymuch everything & it's worth digging around.

[Merlin4458]

anything particular from that website 0iD as i know more about the art of origami then ram

[0iD]

http://www.pc-memory-upgrade.co.uk/m...ram-pc3200.asp
1Gb DDR PC3200 Mushkin Blue Line CL2 Dual Channel kit £106.16
1Gb DDR PC3200 Patriot Low Latency Dual Channel kit £106.84
1Gb DDR PC3200 Mushkin Level1 Dual Channel kit £104.10
1Gb DDR PC3200 2-3-3-6 (ZX Series) G.Skill Dual Channel kit £ 96.57

[Merlin4458]

DDR or DDR2, what is DDR2, and is that what i should get? looks expensive

[Scarlet Infidel]

I assume you want DDR, whats the rig, is it s939? The patriot low latency ram on tekheads looks ok for £97.
The question is what do you want from your ram? Are you going to overclock? If not low latency is all that matters and even then nnot very much.

[Merlin4458]

its a brand new rig, 939 3700 sd, x850 xt pe, purley for gaming, nothing else. Counterstrike source

[Scarlet Infidel]

Then you want DDR not DDR2, do you plan to overclock the processor?

[Merlin4458]

maybe but not much, maybe just up to a 3800 :

[Smokey21]

Anything if your not clocking much.

[drunknmunky]

little bit off topic, but Merlin, what mobo you got/getting? My new system going to be exactly the same as yours, 3700+, X850XT PE, 1gb ram etc.

[Merlin4458]

Abit AN8 NF4 Ultra PCI-E (Socket 939), this one m8. What board u getting?

What is best out of these 2 if i wasnt to overclock much?
>Patriot Dual Channel 1GB PC3200 DDR (2x512MB) Low Latency Kit
>Corsair TwinX 1GB DDR (2x512MB) XMS3200C2PRO

[mike_w]

If you're not overclocking, I think you are best off just getting ordinary RAM - for the price, I don't think tight timings are worth it.

[Merlin4458]

as i said i dont know anything bout ram. So what is classed as ordinary ram, also out of the 2 types off ram shown in my last post which is better

Cheers

[drunknmunky]

Abit AN8 NF4 Ultra PCI-E (Socket 939), this one m8. What board u getting?

What is best out of these 2 if i wasnt to overclock much?
>Patriot Dual Channel 1GB PC3200 DDR (2x512MB) Low Latency Kit
>Corsair TwinX 1GB DDR (2x512MB) XMS3200C2PRO

Getting Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe.

I think the Corsair is probably better because it is the "pro" series. Although, don't count on my knowledge, wait for more people to tell you.

Oh, and by the way, "ordinary" ram is like corsair value select, as opposed to the modules with tighter timings (which cost more).