Memory options...

[jamesjames]

My friends been buggin' me about memory so here's the question...

Which would be your choice of memory, 4gbs or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

Or 2gbs of this...Note the timings and speeds:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146425

Thanks in advance!

 

[PC eye]

What board are you going to installing the memory selected onto? Mushkin was an old favorite for Asus boards.

 

[StrangleHold]

You do know that one is DDR 400 and the other is DDR2 800

 

[jamesjames]

its an asus board, but do the timings and speeds make up for it or no?

 

[Geoff]

One is DDR and the other is DDR2, they don't work in the same memory slots.

As for which is better, my vote goes for the DDR2 800 because of it's higher speeds and a bit higher latency. Not to mention it's much cheaper.

 

[StrangleHold]

If you want DDR2 800 this is better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231114

 

[jamesjames]

my bad, this was an awful question, we didn't notice that it was only ddr...ok so would it be worth getting this memory :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227271

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231114

 

[Geoff]

my bad, this was an awful question, we didn't notice that it was only ddr...ok so would it be worth getting this memory :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227271

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231114

Honestly don't waste your money. The RAM you posted before is just as good.

If you look closely at the specs, you will see that they bumped up the RAM voltage from 1.8v to 2.25v. You can easily do this yourself from within the BIOS, so don't spend twice the money for DDR2 800 with slightly lower timings.

 

[StrangleHold]

my bad, this was an awful question, we didn't notice that it was only ddr...ok so would it be worth getting this memory :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227271

Or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231114

The G Skill has better timing, lower voltage and cheaper than the OCZ

 

[jamesjames]

thanks guys for all your help

 

[PC eye]

OCZ is a premium brand seeing the lower timings there.CAS 3 3-4-4-15 at 2.25v while the G.Skill is seen with CAS 4 4-4-3-5 at 2-2.1v.

Cost wise the 2gb of Mushkin memory runs at 2.1-2.2v with the slightly higher CAS 4 4-5-4-11 for $62.99 seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146673

 

[jamesjames]

So do you think 2gbs of the above memory would out perform 4gbs of ddr2 800 memory with a cas latency of 5-5-5-5-12 and a voltage of 1.8?

 

[Cromewell]

Yes I would think so. It's not very often that someone uses more than 2GB of RAM now so better timings it better than more capacity as the extra space would mostly unused.

 

[jamesjames]

Anyone else wanna chime in?

Thanks Cromewell

 

[PC eye]

There are several rushing out to get Vista 64bit just to see 4gb fully recognised while 2gb is quite adequate even on gaming machines. All these games will run with only 512mb of ram installed or game developers would be out of work fast since most prebuilt systems still see 512 with some now finally seeing 1gb or 2gb as an option.

I paid a little more for 2gb of Kingston Hyper X memory seeing CAS 4 4-4-4-14. But it has worked out quite well on the Asus M2N-E board here performance wise. The Mushkin memory would be thought if you are on a tight budget being a good brand there.