Best value memory for a AMD 2500XP Barton CPU???

I'm planning to upgrade my current PC to an AMD 2500XP Barton CPU with
a Swiftech MCX462 HSF (with the Delta fan) on a Gigabyte 7VN400 Pro 2
mobo. I'm looking to get either 516Mb or 1Gb of RAM (because I play
PC games a lot and use Photoshop endlessly). I plan to overclock the
CPU to about 2.2Ghz.

What is the best memory for this setup? And I don't want to break the
bank.

What's best 268Mb or 512Mb sticks?


Cheers,

Darth Joules

Darth Joules wrote:
> I'm planning to upgrade my current PC to an AMD 2500XP Barton CPU with
> a Swiftech MCX462 HSF (with the Delta fan) on a Gigabyte 7VN400 Pro 2
> mobo. I'm looking to get either 516Mb or 1Gb of RAM (because I play
> PC games a lot and use Photoshop endlessly). I plan to overclock the
> CPU to about 2.2Ghz.
>
> What is the best memory for this setup? And I don't want to break the
> bank.
>
> What's best 268Mb or 512Mb sticks?

I'd steer clear of 268MB chips - they sound dodgy :-)

I personally went for 2 * 512MB Corsair XMS3200LL. Probably a bank breaker
:-)

Twinmos/Winbond BH5 is a good performer for the price.

If you use MASSIVE images in Photoshop (huge res with lots of layers etc)
then you may use over 400Meg or so... 3000*2000*32bits ~23Megs, so you can
see how big your images would need to be.

Best way to tell is to check your peak commit charge in task manger ->
performance and see if you ever use more than 512MB. (this is per session,
so if you restart it's lost).

Just reading emails with a few services loaded I've hit 236Meg, after a run
of Aquamark03 its 378Meg.

Ben
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I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:48:59 +0100, "Ben Pope" <>
wrote:

>Darth Joules wrote:
>> I'm planning to upgrade my current PC to an AMD 2500XP Barton CPU with
>> a Swiftech MCX462 HSF (with the Delta fan) on a Gigabyte 7VN400 Pro 2
>> mobo. I'm looking to get either 516Mb or 1Gb of RAM (because I play
>> PC games a lot and use Photoshop endlessly). I plan to overclock the
>> CPU to about 2.2Ghz.
>>
>> What is the best memory for this setup? And I don't want to break the
>> bank.
>>
>> What's best 268Mb or 512Mb sticks?
>
>I'd steer clear of 268MB chips - they sound dodgy :-)

Sorry I ment 256Mb sticks, bit of typo there. : )P

>I personally went for 2 * 512MB Corsair XMS3200LL. Probably a bank breaker
>:-)

Does look good with it's low CAS latency....it looks like one is
enough to break my budget. £105 for one stick is quite a bit.


Darth Joules

> Just reading emails with a few services loaded I've hit 236Meg, after a
run
> of Aquamark03 its 378Meg.


Good grief you must have a lot running in the background. As I am typing
this there are 28 processes running and 128mb out of 512mb being used.
Surely that can't be just with your news / mail client open...?

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Regards

Morgan

Hello

For quality memory, but a little expensive, then Corsair XMS (not LL as they
are expensive) memory is very good and compatible across a whole range of
boards. Their Value Select memory that they offer also competes well with
Twinmos but memory timings aren't as fast.

The only issue that I had, until I got rid of the Pro 2 Gigabyte board, was
that it continually over volts on the Vcore and it can't be lowered. Mine
always ran at 1.73v or higher with a 1.65v Core. This is quite common
according to the people who posted within a forum to my questions on this
board. Thus an issue of heat can be a problem if you want to keep the Vcore
at std voltage.
Multiplier adjustment within the bios would have been nice as well on that
board.

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Regards

Morgan

I suggest the best value is Mushkin Green - PC3200 with a lifetime
guarantee.
It will run at 200 FSB and it is very stable ram at a fair price. I bought
a single 512 stick for a client and it was around $138 Cdn.

My machine is similar to yours, (Abit) with OCZ3500EL. Great memory with a
lifetime guarantee. I tried this ram against the Mushkin and it did perform
better, but not enough to warrant more than double the price.

Hope this helps,

Alan

"Darth Joules" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm planning to upgrade my current PC to an AMD 2500XP Barton CPU with
> a Swiftech MCX462 HSF (with the Delta fan) on a Gigabyte 7VN400 Pro 2
> mobo. I'm looking to get either 516Mb or 1Gb of RAM (because I play
> PC games a lot and use Photoshop endlessly). I plan to overclock the
> CPU to about 2.2Ghz.
>
> What is the best memory for this setup? And I don't want to break the
> bank.
>
> What's best 268Mb or 512Mb sticks?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darth Joules

"Darth Joules" <> wrote in message news:...
> I'm planning to upgrade my current PC to an AMD 2500XP Barton CPU with
> a Swiftech MCX462 HSF (with the Delta fan) on a Gigabyte 7VN400 Pro 2
> mobo. I'm looking to get either 516Mb or 1Gb of RAM (because I play
> PC games a lot and use Photoshop endlessly). I plan to overclock the
> CPU to about 2.2Ghz.
>
> What is the best memory for this setup? And I don't want to break the
> bank.
>
> What's best 268Mb or 512Mb sticks?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Darth Joules

I recently built a new system using a 2500+ Barton with a Asus A7N8X-Deluxe. I chose Buffalo Technologies PC3700 Winbond DDR modules. The system is currently running rock stable at 220 x 11 with cas2.5-3-3-8 timings. I'm sure I can tighten them up a bit. $103 a stick delivered from Newegg.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:57:28 +0100, "Morgan" <> wrote:

>> Just reading emails with a few services loaded I've hit 236Meg, after a
>run
>> of Aquamark03 its 378Meg.
>
>
>Good grief you must have a lot running in the background. As I am typing
>this there are 28 processes running and 128mb out of 512mb being used.
>Surely that can't be just with your news / mail client open...?

oh it can be... i have 26 processes currently and using 382 megs ram
of 512, peaked at 561...usually peaks around 750 to 780. NEED more
ram.

Morgan wrote:
> Good grief you must have a lot running in the background. As I am typing
> this there are 28 processes running and 128mb out of 512mb being used.
> Surely that can't be just with your news / mail client open...?

Apache, Zone Alarm and Norton AV are 10meg each. OE works out at at least
27Meg with OEQuoteFix.

Currently running at 200Meg with just OE loaded as an application.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

"Steve Vai" <****you@****off.com> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:57:28 +0100, "Morgan" <> wrote:
>
> >> Just reading emails with a few services loaded I've hit 236Meg, after a
> >run
> >> of Aquamark03 its 378Meg.
> >
> >
> >Good grief you must have a lot running in the background. As I am typing
> >this there are 28 processes running and 128mb out of 512mb being used.
> >Surely that can't be just with your news / mail client open...?
>
> oh it can be... i have 26 processes currently and using 382 megs ram
> of 512, peaked at 561...usually peaks around 750 to 780. NEED more
> ram.

Try Cacheman...it should help free up memory on any OS:

http://www.outertech.com/