Help with choosing memory

Hi and TIA for many advice.
I'm starting to get a migrane from the endless
info that's out there on different memory choices.
Just bought an IC7 & P4 2.4c
and now need some memory. Budget for the memory
is approx. $175.
I plan to overclock this chip.
I'm thinking OCZ but there's so many to choose from.
Should i go for 1gig or better quality 512mb?
I play FPS type games on this pc.
Again, if this topic has been beat to death, i'd
appreciate your advice.

Keith

 

The way prices are going up, you may no longer have
the choice.

Let's say you want to run at 5:4.
PC3200 running at stock speed gives you 3GHz with a
FSB of 250. With that board, you might be able to run
a maximum of 270 FSB if you're very lucky, which is
2.24 GHz, which is 216 MHz memory speed. That is
squarely PC3500 territory. Now how much do you want
to pay for your PC3500? Probably not the $320 that I
paid for a GB of Corsair. I could probably get that back
now on eBay...

Even the lowly Kingmax, which was just $79 at Newegg
has risen to $112. Vanilla Crucial PC3200 was $119 this
morning. Can you say price gouging? This is a major ouch!
Will they keep climbing? Will they go back down when
people say "screw you" and don't buy it? Will people even
do that? I don't know. That said, I think I would head over
to Outpost.com and get a couple 512MB sticks of Mushkin
PC3500. Funky timings compared to the Level 1 on their
website, but still probably a decent buy, and fully waranteed.

 

hi, i'm using ocz 3700 rev. 2 on an a17 2.8c @ 3.01ghz stock cooling &
voltages w/ no probs. can o/c higher, but don't have need...

pax,
h2

 

Of course you know I meant 3.24 GHz, not 2.24 GHz.
Or around there somewhere...

 

The price of RAM seems inflated right now. This has happened only
once before, in the Spring of the year, that I'm aware of. The last
time was in the late 90s when their was a big earth quake in Taiwan -
knocking out a major ic fab plant. All I have heard about this Spring
is that "memory is on allocation". Not sure what has caused this -
but it has happened. Sometimes it is caused by market collusion, e.g.
OPEC. Memory prices have gone up (instead of down) about 35% since
this time last year.

So if it were me, I would lean towards 512 right now and upgrade to 1G
in a year or so.

Forrest

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On 8 Apr 2004 05:51:47 -0700, (Keith) wrote:

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ok..great, thanks for the replies.
now....i just visited newegg and see a number of
choices for mushkin. thinking ahead as you
recommend, which one? level one? seems to be
a couple of different ones.
I used to know what was going on with memory &
overclocking w/ my BE6-2. I'm totally lost now.
I'd like to put an order in w/ Outpost or Newegg
tonight.
Thanks a million!

Keith

 

You will take a *huge* performance hit in memory
bandwidth if you don't get two and run dual channel
on the Intel system...

 

Corsair has been my choice with no issues at all. both XMS3500 and XMS4400.

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I ordered 512 mb (2x256mb) of the OCZ Gold pc3700 rev. 2
and now have read that i need 4 sticks for my board.
Something about it not being dual sided. Is this true?
This i read on Anandtech's site.

TIA
Keith

 

not familiar with that particular RAM so I cannot advise. maybe you can
find their support pages on the web and have a go at that...

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