I've just been asked this question by a friend and was wondering what others on this forum would recommend. His OS is going to be XP 32bit and his CPU is a Q6600, the main use for his system would be graphics packages/web design and video editing.
I’m leaning towards the 2 x 1GB DDR2 PC8500 Crucial Ballistix for his options or do you think these would be better?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-136-CS
Just been looking and reading about RAM and could do with your opinion.
At first I was going to order 2 x 2GB DDR2 PC5300 RAM as a kit from Crucial. Looked in to it and from what I can see the transfer rate between CPU and Memory would have been 5.3 GB’s/Sec. The price was £57. According to some forums Windows XP would probably only utilise between 3GB – 3.5GB RAM, not the full 4GB.
I then looked at 2 x 1GB DDR2 PC8500 Crucial Ballistix which was £54. This had a transfer rate of 8.5GB’s/Sec.
Question is, is it better to have 2GB of RAM which I assume is faster or 4GB which is slower. Don’t fully understand it but the FSB on the 2 x 1GB Ram is 1066Mhz and that appears to be the max according to the motherboard spec without going to DDR3. I think the 2 x 2GB is 667Mhz.
What would you recommend?
I’m leaning towards the 2 x 1GB DDR2 PC8500 Crucial Ballistix for his options or do you think these would be better?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-136-CS
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