DDR2 Memory help please...

PikKOn · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:29

Hi guys and girls I am stumped on which DDR2 module I should buy. I've been looking at things like latency, speeds but all of which seem to be the same all thats different is the make and perhaps the heat spreaders. Currently I am willing to spend something in the area of £350 and am leaning towards either these, prices taken from OcUK of course

Corsair Dominator 2x1GB PC8500 - £293.74
G.Skill 2x1GB PC8000 - £358.36
OCZ PC800 2x1GB XTC Series - £352.44

If anybody has any other recommendations please post. Too many makes, high prices = bad

The mobo this would go with is the ASUS WiFi P5W DH and the processor would be the E6600.

Never heard of Mushkin and Patriot lol :confused:

Many thanks, PiKkOn

Tetras · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:39

What kind of overclock are you going for here? Cos to be honest that is one heck of a lot of money just to put into RAM, the performance diff between something like this:

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£146.82

and what your looking at is small enough the price of those other modules is laughable. You'd see a much better return spending that £150 - £200 on a bigger graphics card/monitor/faster CPU etc imo

PikKOn · 30 Aug 2006 at 22:48

At the moment I am looking at the processor which is capable of supporting 1066MhZ FSB so getting a memory kit with only 800MhZ would be a bit of a waste on the processor wouldn't it? I want to make full use of the processor and mobo combined and to do that I would need that type of memory which is capable of pumping out 1000MhZ...

Do you think I should spend it on something else? I am looking to get an X1900XT as they are more or less the same as an X1900XTX. The monitor is gonna be a Viewsonic 20.1" VP2030b.

Many thanks

TheMightyTen · 31 Aug 2006 at 00:26

A 1066Mhz processor does not have a 1066 FSB it's actually 266Mhz (4*266 - It's a quad pumped bus) for a 1066 processor for the memory to run synchronously you only need PC2-4200 (266*2 = 533 DDR). PC2-5300 (667Mhz) and PC2-6400 (800Mhz) run asynchronously with the FSB which can (particularly in the case of the PC2-5300) degrade performance, they are at their most useful when you overclock the cpu via the FSB to run synchronously with it's rated speed. PC2-8000 and above is massive overkill for your needs.