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- May 17, 2004
I'm trying to decide what to do about buying ram:
a) Buy nice pc3700 (ex: OCZ Gold pc3700 rev3) or pc4000 (ex: OCZ pc4000 Gold rev.2) ram at 256x2 (512Mb)
OR
b) Buy normal (ex: Corsair Value Select) pc3200 ram at 512x2...
I'm gonna get the 3000+ venice most likely with 939 pci-e mb (don't know yet which). I would like to overclock to 220 'fsb' and maybe higher....Buying the higher speed ram would allow me to run 1:1, but with only 512Mb. Buying the pc3200 ram would mean i have 1Gb of ram, but i would either need to run async with the cpu or not overclock the cpu in the first place.
Which would give me the best performance? And would any of them give me a noticeable performance boost over the others? by the way, anything less then 5% difference (or even 10% maybe) is useless to me - i'm not out to get great benchmarks or something - just to maybe get maybe faster speed in windows, load up times, and maybe games.....
Any suggestions?
a) Buy nice pc3700 (ex: OCZ Gold pc3700 rev3) or pc4000 (ex: OCZ pc4000 Gold rev.2) ram at 256x2 (512Mb)
OR
b) Buy normal (ex: Corsair Value Select) pc3200 ram at 512x2...
I'm gonna get the 3000+ venice most likely with 939 pci-e mb (don't know yet which). I would like to overclock to 220 'fsb' and maybe higher....Buying the higher speed ram would allow me to run 1:1, but with only 512Mb. Buying the pc3200 ram would mean i have 1Gb of ram, but i would either need to run async with the cpu or not overclock the cpu in the first place.
Which would give me the best performance? And would any of them give me a noticeable performance boost over the others? by the way, anything less then 5% difference (or even 10% maybe) is useless to me - i'm not out to get great benchmarks or something - just to maybe get maybe faster speed in windows, load up times, and maybe games.....
Any suggestions?