- Joined
- Mar 13, 2005
I realise you guys must be sick of seeing us AMD refugees coming over 2 the dark side in need of speed.
But santa (& wife ) have been good & i will get my new build in around 3 weeks. Going 4 either:-
Abit IN9 32X-MAX 680i
or
DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200-T2R/G ATI RD600
+6600
But as with last 3 builds hardest componrnt to pin down is memory.
Biggest issue i see is that chips get changed & memory that was great performance a few months ago in review x becomes very average. A case in point being Choosing the Right Memory for Core 2 Duo Platform - Part 3: DDR2-800 SDRAM Modules Roundup (page 8) In this review , from a site i trust the corsair wins hands down, in particular looking like great value compared with the 2nd place Mushkin. However that was October reading around the forums I see that chances of getting same performance now from that memory is zilch.
Current Shortlist is:-
CellShock DDR2 1000 (PC8000)
4-4-4-12
Redline XP2-8000 996525 (2x1GB)
XP2-6400 996523 (2x1GB) - From the Xbit Article.
Team Xtreem DDR2 800MHz CL 3-3-3-8
The above are all available here in the ulk at the moment. Had considered the g-skill Hz but its out of stock & more expensive than most of above.
To sum up i'm more concerned about spending money to find i've got fairly indifferent memory cos there has been a revision of the chips. I'm leaning towards the Mushkin but would be grateful as hell for some 1st hand opinions.
Thanks
But santa (& wife
) have been good & i will get my new build in around 3 weeks. Going 4 either:-Abit IN9 32X-MAX 680i
or
DFI LANParty UT ICFX3200-T2R/G ATI RD600
+6600
But as with last 3 builds hardest componrnt to pin down is memory.
Biggest issue i see is that chips get changed & memory that was great performance a few months ago in review x becomes very average. A case in point being Choosing the Right Memory for Core 2 Duo Platform - Part 3: DDR2-800 SDRAM Modules Roundup (page 8) In this review , from a site i trust the corsair wins hands down, in particular looking like great value compared with the 2nd place Mushkin. However that was October reading around the forums I see that chances of getting same performance now from that memory is zilch.
Current Shortlist is:-
CellShock DDR2 1000 (PC8000)
4-4-4-12
Redline XP2-8000 996525 (2x1GB)
XP2-6400 996523 (2x1GB) - From the Xbit Article.
Team Xtreem DDR2 800MHz CL 3-3-3-8
The above are all available here in the ulk at the moment. Had considered the g-skill Hz but its out of stock & more expensive than most of above.
To sum up i'm more concerned about spending money to find i've got fairly indifferent memory cos there has been a revision of the chips. I'm leaning towards the Mushkin but would be grateful as hell for some 1st hand opinions.
Thanks
