A Little Help In Choosing Some Memory?

[NeoDragoN]

Hey there

So i decided to do the jump and go to 2gig of Ram, but i have to say i am pretty lost....

ATM i am running a P4 3-Gig, Radeon X850XT and 512Meg (2x256) of Samsung DDR400 ( Dual Channel )

I have been looking at OCZ Value Ram, because tbh i don't want to spend more than around £170 but i got reading about CAS? and Latency? and timings? and i must say it blew my mind.

I'm not interested in overclocking i just wanna stick the ram in and get a smoother performance particuarly in games

So if anyone could give me a bit of an overview on CAS & Timings etc and reccomend some ram for me i would very much appreciate it.

Thanks

Alex

 

[NeoDragoN]

Thanks for that guys, my motherboard is a couple of years old, my system was the medion system from Aldi when it had the 9800 XXL in it ( cracking system at the time at a great price ).

CPU-Z picks up the mobo as a MSI MS-7048, and theres not much info about on it on the net, so i am not even gonna try DDR2 with it The P4 is a northwood, real old now but still got the grunt

I think i am gonna go with what ajgoodfellow has suggested, good price for good ram it seems, i have also seen its praises in other posts on the forum.

Btw thanks for the little explanation

Alex