E8400: Which Mobo and Ram Speed/size?

[michaelmcgo]

I am building a computer for my brother. He has given me an $800 budget (no monitor or OS, computer only) to build a computer for games and the internet. I am thinking about the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3 for the Mobo, will this hold the E8400 back at all? I am going with a single $200ish GPU (still open on which one). I can get 4 GBs of DDR2 800 for the same price as 2 GBs of DDR3 1333, which should I go with here (He will be running Vista 32bit)?
Thanks in advance.

 

[vix]

The e8400 is a wonderful processor, and is a fast either overclocked or at the default 3 GHz setting. For a general build, it should be fine.

Keep in mind though, that with that board ONLY THE DDR2 MEMORY WILL WORK. DDR3 is incompatible.

 

[oscaryu1]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
Q6600

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267
OCZ Reaper HPC Edition 2x 2GB CL4 DDR2-800

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102747
Sapphire HD4850 512MB GDDR3 256bit PCI-E 2.0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106263
Lite-On Black DVD Burner SATA

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136074
WDC SE16 16MB 7200RPM 320GB SATAII

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119115
Cooler Master Elite 330 ATX Case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128084
P35-S3G

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341001
OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU

Total after rebates including shipping: $710.58

 

[Droogie]

Yea, and if you are using 4 GB or ram on 32 Bit vista, it will only recognized about 3.5 GB. I doublt DDR3 RAM will fit into an $800 budget either.

 

[oscaryu1]

Yea, and if you are using 4 GB or ram on 32 Bit vista, it will only recognized about 3.5 GB. I doublt DDR3 RAM will fit into an $800 budget either.

32bit - 3.25GB
64bit - 128GB

 

[Droogie]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130376

GeForce 9800 GTX+ > Radeon 4850 (lol there actually almost identical, just a suggestion)

 

[oscaryu1]

They're pretty much identical, tknick90.

 

[michaelmcgo]

So, will going with 800 speed RAM hurt the performance that much of the E8400? Will the extra 1.5 GB of 800 speed RAM help me more than the extra speed of 1333 speed ram?

 

[2048Megabytes]

32bit - 3.25GB
64bit - 128GB

I thought Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit would recognize a maximum of 16 gigabytes of RAM and Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit would recognize a maximum of 8 gigabytes of RAM.

 

[oscaryu1]

So, will going with 800 speed RAM hurt the performance that much of the E8400? Will the extra 1.5 GB of 800 speed RAM help me more than the extra speed of 1333 speed ram?

DDR2-800 is all you need. Getting any faster RAM is like getting a Murcielago to send your kids to soccer practice.

 

[michaelmcgo]

DDR2-800 is all you need. Getting any faster RAM is like getting a Murcielago to send your kids to soccer practice.

Thank you, a direct answer to my question. 4GBs of DDR2 800 it is!