Ram Upgrade to 8GB - Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P

craigy72

craigy72

craigy72

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Hello All,

Im looking for a ram upgrade for my motherboard and wondered what was the best value for money upgrade. Im looking to go to 8GB... not wanting to spend a lot but options would be good.

I do a lot of rendering in 3D applications / photoshop etc and noticed last night that I had no spare memory left.

I currently have this:

OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel (OCZ2G10664GK)

Running Windows 7 64 Bit.

Thanks for your help!
 
Thats a good option... from looking around though it looks like DDR2 ram is expensive! £50 for 4 GB...

Do I have to buy the same brand / speed as my OCZ stuff?
 
You need DDR2 PC2-8500 (1066mhz) otherwise if you used PC2-6400, then the PC2 8500 would drop to match the lower speed.

Even on the bay DDR2 is darn expensive, just had a look, there two individual sticks OCZ DDR2 PC2-10666 listed there, quite reasonable.

Have a look at Members Market, you usually see DDR2 for sell there.
 
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He can't access the members market. Not enough posts etc.

In the past I've been bothered about matching RAM but I think in reality you'll get a benefit from the extra RAM and not really lose much from dropping speeds if you had to use 800MHz.
 
No, but I certainly wouldn't post your email details here, but you may be able to enable Trust, can't remember whether it's restricted until a certain number of posts.

And mentioning competitors or giving links to them is taboo , & will incur the wrath of mod & you will get an infraction or a ban.:p

Ben Cole; Thought it was 50 posts for some reason?:o
 
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