RAM brands

[leprosy]

im going to buy some new ram i currently have corsair but i think im going to go kingston this time , i heard they were good , i was wondering if everyone could give me an opinion on the best type of rams

[AKA_RA]

best type? usually you dont have a choice of what type you use in your system. usually its either DDR or DDR2 depending on what motherboard you have, assuming you have a somewhat recent system that is. if you mean brand, then i would say go with either corsair or kingston, theyve always served me well. but then theres always companys like OCZ and Patriot, theyre worth a look as well. just remember mhz isnt the only thing to consider with your ram. you also want to get the lowest latency possible. usually budget ram is like cas 3 and the good stuff is cas 2

[leprosy]

best type? usually you dont have a choice of what type you use in your system. usually its either DDR or DDR2 depending on what motherboard you have, assuming you have a somewhat recent system that is. if you mean brand, then i would say go with either corsair or kingston, theyve always served me well. but then theres always companys like OCZ and Patriot, theyre worth a look as well. just remember mhz isnt the only thing to consider with your ram. you also want to get the lowest latency possible. usually budget ram is like cas 3 and the good stuff is cas 2

yeah i meant brand lol

this is what im looking at getting

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134039

[Omega]

yeah i meant brand lol

this is what im looking at getting

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134039


It's valueram with a heatspreader.

Kingston:
Red heatspreader on PDP ram = Good stuff
Blue heatspreader on PDP ram = Valueram.


Trust me. I know.

I've got a 512 stick of the original red PDP, it owns.

EDIT:

WOAH

Kingston pulled a bait-n-switch on me. Bastards. Yeah. That HyperX is pretty good. Get it.

[leprosy]

what is the difference between two 1 gb sticks and the 2gb kit, i know the 2 gb kit is two 1gb sticks, but what about performance

the only reason why i ask this is because i wanted to get the 2 gb kit but i dont have enough money so im just going to buy 1 gb for now and ad the other gb later


what is the difference between unbuffered and registered ram?

[.Maleficus.]

The 2 gig kit is dual-channel. I don't know much about RAM, but I'm pretty sure dual-channel runs faster than 2 1 gig sticks that aren't dual channel would.

Edit: Registered vs. Unbuffered. (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/44_1.html)

[.alchinko.]

i got kingston... 1 gb its nice i like alot.....

[silverdemon]

in the kit the RAM-sticks are perfectly tuned to match, they run at exactly the same speed etc... so a kit is probably better, but I don't think it would make a big difference if you buy the second stick later...

[Cagedconnerman]

I would advise if u want 2 gigs of ram to just get a 2 gig stick, it increases performance...i'm not perfectly sure of the reason but i think it's like xfire vs. sli performance. xfire info goes to one place and is all processed there, thus increasing speed compared to SLI going to 2 sources where it is processed and shared, thus being a slightly lower speed.
that may be a little hard to understand do to lack of periods and stuff.

- Conner

[silverdemon]

ok, but what if you have 2 thingies, lets say the work at 200 MHz... If you put one big unit in it, the data-transfer will be 200 MHz tops...
BUT if you have 2 (smaller) units, you can transfer data through two 'ports' so you actually have 400 MHz of processing / transfer-speed...

at least, I think it works that way... also there are losses in speed because the 2 devices will have to 'talk to eachother' so the mentioned 400 MHz will never be realistic...

[.Maleficus.]

Well, based on this (http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&id=128&perpage=1&pagenum=1), it looks like either route would be fine. Dual-channel preformed better sometimes, but so did single. So really it's your call.

[leprosy]

ok thanks , i think ill just get a 1bg kit for now
it should do