Hello guys as you can see im new so PLS dont cute me hard lol
Any way guys im setting up a new pc and realy realy nead some help with the ram the stuff that im getting are
(MB) Abit NF7 v2.0 nForce2 / Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2 dont no what one to get
(CPU) AMD ATHLON XP 2500+ 333FSB SKT-A OEM BARTON AQZFA
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(RAM)
(1)1Gb kit DDR PC3200 Premier Dual Channel - OCZ£178 CL2.5-3-3-7 2T
(2)1Gb kit EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum Dual Channel - OCZ£214 CL 2-2-3-5 1T 4.5ns
(3)1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Dual Channel - GeIL Golden Dragon£205 4.5ns CL2,6-3-3 1T
(4)1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Dual Channel EL - OCZ£239 4.5ns CL2
so as you can see im going madtrying to work out whats the best 1 to go for i will be overclocking and trying to get a good FSB
i all ready have a 9800 pro wating for this set upso PLS guys help me out thanks


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trying to work out whats the best 1 to go for i will be overclocking and trying to get a good FSB
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Sorry to complicate you more but I'd go with TwinMOS myself closely followed by Adata and Crucial. I dislike Geil, their early stuff was essentially PC2100 overvolted to crap and sold as PC2700-3200. OCZ have a bad past too, so I avoid them, seem more popular now though. I've never heard of EL ... is that a brand? Anyway no need for 'matched pairs' nor 'low latency', just buy 2 of the same sticks and you're sweet for Dual Channel fun. No need fo ranything more than PC3200 on SktA as even 400FSB is more than it needs, still if you want to push PC3500+ will ensure the RAM is not a limiting factor. Abit NF7-S v2.0 is known to be the best o/c'er.
TwinMOS RAM should have TwinMOS branded stick and RAM chips ... if you had M-TEC printed anywhere on it you were most liekly buying some generic manu's RAM stick with TwinMOS chips attached to it (I'm guessing). Anyway just thought I'd throw in some prices for you ...
You do get free P&P from Crucial and lifetime warranty (as Russ points out). Biggest downside seems the latency, we haven't seen CL3.0 since SDR days. Latency is way overplayed and even less important in Dual Channel setups, I'm not sure what effect it would have on overall perf but fastest vs slowest is usually only 1-2% in overall perf. Full list ...

