a RAM question What's going to give better performance... 1066mhz @ 5-5-5-18 or 800mhz @ 4-4-4-12? Will there be a massive difference? There's so much RAM to choose from, I can't decide I was thinking 2 lots of this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/111439 ta
id have said get the tighter timings and overclock it meself, if ya get mint ram ya can have it cranked up a canny wack. but if ya dont overclock it then it is a toughen between the two
alo unless the other bits in the pc arent as quick as the ram then u get bottlenecks, im sure thats how it still works, sure that was the case 'back in the day' u building a whole new pc mate or just getting some new bits
whole new machine mate, spec as follows (not necessarily final): CPU: Intel C2Q Q6600 CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9F Motherboard: Asus P5K-E Memory: 4GB Corsair XMS2, 800MHz 4-4-4-12 GFX: BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC2 512MB GDDR3 Primary HDD: 76GB Raptor Storage: 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Case: Antec 900 Gamer PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W Just over £900 with delivery
I've decided to drop the Raptor, going to go with the Seagate only for now, may add another later and RAID0..not too sure yet. Also opted for a 750watt PSU instead, and changed the CPU cooler to a Tuniq Tower. I'm not certain on the case choice...but I think i'll stick with it. Ordered the RAM and Cooler from Overclockers, going too see if I can add the CPU on as they have the retail version on special offer. Going to order the rest when ebuyer get back to me!
Final spec: CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition CPU Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler GFX: BFG 8800GT 512MB OC2 Dual DVI HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card HDD1: WD Raptor 74GB 10k RPM HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 32MB Cache Mobo: ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP AiLifestyle Series P35 Socket 775 Memory: 2x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2(CL4-4-4-12) (total 4GB) PSU: Corsair TX 750W Case: Antec 900 Going to be overclocking it a bit too, probs get the CPU to 3.0ghz and tweak the ram a bit too. Theres plenty of cooling to allow for it! gona be a beast like, my current machine is nearly 8 years old
indeed I've once again decided against the Raptor and my descision is final! Going for 64 bit Vista, apparantly there are shit loads of driver issues with XP 64.
