Corsair or Kingston?

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guernseynick

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I have decided to get a fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard and have chosen to get a single 512 quality module rather than 2 cheaper value 1Gb sticks. Is this a good choice?

I am not sure whether to get the kingston hyperx or the corsair PC24300 512. The hyperx is more expensive so is it better?

The mainboard has four slots (2 duals) so should i get 2 256's?

BTW i would be looking to upgrade the single quality stick at a later date as my budget cannot stretch that far at the mo.

I am not tied to these choices and would be grateful for any suggestions. My budget cannot stretch much over 120 for tthe ram

Many thanx NickB
 
well if you have an Intel CPU i would say go ahead with the dual-channel, if you have an AMD i wouldnt mess with it.

and im not sure how much of a difference you would notice in normal use between the quality RAM and the value stuff, if you are doing a lot of OCing and whatnot then get the pricey stuff, but if your keeping everything stock then i would say get the gig of the cheap stuff.
 
well if you have an Intel CPU i would say go ahead with the dual-channel, if you have an AMD i wouldnt mess with it.
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Why does it matter which procesor platform (s)he is using?

I have decided to get a fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard and have chosen to get a single 512 quality module rather than 2 cheaper value 1Gb sticks. Is this a good choice?
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2x1GB will outperform 1x512 regardless of the quality of the 512MB stick unless all you do is benchmarking...

I am not sure whether to get the kingston hyperx or the corsair PC24300 512. The hyperx is more expensive so is it better?
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Need to know rhe full specs on both sticks of memroy in comparison...
 
it probably wouldn't make a monster difference no matter if you got corsairs top knotch or kingstons premier. i've used both...*shrugs* i couldn't really "see" the difference...i'm sure there is some nano difference though. I'd go with corsair because the name sounds cooler. :P i'm kidding...just wait til praetor or cromewell gives you the real 411..
 
i guess i wasnt perfectly clear, i guess if its a newer AMD, then it could be taken advantage of, but the older chips dont have the bus speed to take advantage of the higher memory bandwidth, but thats just always what ive heard, and as we all know you cant base everything on that, but if your getting two sticks anyway you could go ahead and make it dual-channel...smoke em if you got em:)
 
One thing guys it seem like he whant to run in dual mode And if I'm correct he need to rams in order to do this. So get two Corsair 256 rams cost would almost be the same as 1 512 ram and run that mobo on dual mode.
 
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