DDR2 for New Rig...

JDawggS316 · May 10, 2007

Okay, I am running 4 sticks of 512MB DDR2 at 533MHz.

Should I upgrade to 2x1GB DDR2?

And....

Wait for it....

Wait for it....

What is among the most recommendable for memory these days?

THX

BoysBoysBoys · May 10, 2007

Yes you should run dual channel and you could close your eyes and pick a ram module from this list and it would be a fantastic choice.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=124283

JDawggS316 · May 10, 2007

Thanks a much...However, I do hear OCZ and Cosair are among the best of the best....

Fact or fiction?

dudleycpa · May 10, 2007

Fiction

BossBorot · May 10, 2007

look in the cyber deal section for any memory that uses D9GMH. There are a few deals out now.

AC3421 · May 10, 2007

dudleycpa said:
Fiction

Fact.

I always use Corsair, nothing else. But OCZ is one of the best as well.

I dont like all those other companies, like G-Skill, Crucial, etc. Idk why but they had always come off to me as cheap RAM. This last year though alot of people seem to be buying into them.

youngbuck · May 10, 2007

AC3421 said:
Fact.

I always use Corsair, nothing else. But OCZ is one of the best as well.

I dont like all those other companies, like G-Skill, Crucial, etc. Idk why but they had always come off to me as cheap RAM. This last year though alot of people seem to be buying into them.

G-Skill? CRUCIAL?!!!!! Cheap?! You have got to be kidding me dude. :eh?:

inkfx · May 10, 2007

I havn't seen people buy up the Corsair stuff since the dominators were, well, dominating. I would definitely pick between Crucial and G.Skill atm. Both have some great prices and are pulling off extremely nice numbers.

BossBorot · May 10, 2007

I quite frankly believe that in the high end Corsair and G.skill are with winners currently where as Crucial and OCZ used until that promos issue and drops in prices that ocz and crucial havent reacted to well on their better stuff.

also I think that its kind of funny to favor crucial over corsair which is a subsidy of the company that provides the chips for crucials better products. Heck when crucial switched from d9 to promos all h*ll broke loose.

JDawggS316 · May 11, 2007

Okay here is my soon-to-be system specs:

1. EVGA 680i SLi Motherboard
2. Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
3. EVGA 8800GTX (640MB)
4. Raidmax Modular 630w PSU

I am a mild overclocker...

I look for quality performance for gaming and speed...

My choices are between OCZ and Corsair.

This is the list from the EVGA website of compatible memory:

Above 1066 MHz (Above PC2 8500)
Corsair TWIN2X2048-9136C5DF
Corsair TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF

1066 MHz (PC2 8500)
OCZ OCZ2N10661G
Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5
OCZ OCZ2N1066SR2GK
OCZ OCZ2N1066SR1G

Infamous question I know....

Which one?

THX in advance

Yellowbeard XMS · May 11, 2007

You may want to watch the pricing on some of the 2 x 2gb kits coming out. They are VERY reasonable and are fast enough to allow, for example, an E6600 to run at 3.6ghz/400FSB+. Not too shabby.

inkfx · May 11, 2007

BossBorot said:
I quite frankly believe that in the high end Corsair and G.skill are with winners currently where as Crucial and OCZ used until that promos issue and drops in prices that ocz and crucial havent reacted to well on their better stuff.

also I think that its kind of funny to favor crucial over corsair which is a subsidy of the company that provides the chips for crucials better products. Heck when crucial switched from d9 to promos all h*ll broke loose.

I don't think they switched over to Promos chips on their Ballistix and Tracers. Micron is Crucial and Crucial is Micron. They use D9. They've got some of the highest bined D9 ICs on their memory. Search the forums for Guatams Tracers, they did 700mhz. I believe wa77s also had some Ballistix that clocked up to 700 as well. Crucial memory is in no way the lesser of the bunch.

edit - Corsair are the ones who switched their chips over to Promos which angered a lot of people. I do want to say that the tension was resolved due to Corsair top notch customer service.

Yellowbeard XMS · May 11, 2007

inkfx said:
edit - Corsair are the ones who switched their chips over to Promos which angered a lot of people. I do want to say that the tension was resolved due to Corsair top notch customer service.

If my opinion matters, that is a very fair statement. I appreciate reasonable people regardless of what brand of memory they use. :beer:

BossBorot · May 11, 2007

inkfx said:
I don't think they switched over to Promos chips on their Ballistix and Tracers. Micron is Crucial and Crucial is Micron. They use D9. They've got some of the highest bined D9 ICs on their memory. Search the forums for Guatams Tracers, they did 700mhz. I believe wa77s also had some Ballistix that clocked up to 700 as well. Crucial memory is in no way the lesser of the bunch.

edit - Corsair are the ones who switched their chips over to Promos which angered a lot of people. I do want to say that the tension was resolved due to Corsair top notch customer service.

my dyslexia, or as I like to call it lysdexia, caught up to me on that I ment to say that Crucial and g.skill are the best IMHO where as OCZ and corsair where the best until corsair did that promos thing. It just came out horribly wrong. :beer:

I always get the names corsair and crucial mixed up when I write them even though I mentally know which is which.

I must of looked like such an idiot with that statement

JDawggS316 · May 11, 2007

CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

OR

OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Platinum SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel

dudleycpa · May 11, 2007

Both are good choices, you'll be happy either one.

JDawggS316 · May 11, 2007

Do the heatsinks on the Corsair give it a little edge over the OCZ?

dudleycpa · May 11, 2007

JDawggS316 said:
Do the heatsinks on the Corsair give it a little edge over the OCZ?

Not really unless you like the looks of them better.

Do you have a link to the OCZs? I couldn't find them.

The Corsair you listed where crazy expensive on the egg.

dudleycpa · May 11, 2007

Dawg are these the OCZs?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227178

JDawggS316 · May 11, 2007

OCZ OCZ2N10662GK - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227178

Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5D - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145043

The Corsair's come down to $179.00...That ain't horrible for 1066.

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