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Ok i am building a pc, what i have so far is in my sig and i got a 7200.11 seagate 500gig 32mb cache picked out to order too. My motherboard fries sticks of ram sometimes when trying to have all 4 slots full i guess, so i am going with only a 2 stick kit. Also i am leaning towards 32bit vista, so from what i have read here 2 gigs should perform just as good as 4 gigs anyways.
I found this set of Crucial Ballistix Dual Channel 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz EPP Memory (2x 1024MB) for only $50 CAD. It's CAS Latency is 4-4-4-12
I really want to order this before they run out if it suits my system best (or close to best)
I have been reading up on ram for 4 days straight and it just gets more and more complicated. A few people say that the 8500 and 6400 are identical and that you can clock the 6400 up to the same speed as the 8500 with the same voltage and same latency, like raise the latency and speed on the pc6400 to the exact same as the stock pc8500 of the same brand, and vice versa with lowering. Is that true ? If not how much faster would the crucial balistix 8500 be after ocing ?
Also i was curious if water cooling could be added to this ram. Or to any ram that doesn't come with it pre-installed on it. And if i went 64bit down the road how much boost in performance would i get from having 2x2gig vs 2x1gig.
I know i am a noob but i am trying hard not to make noob mistakes. I would rather look dumb asking a question than look dumb with a overpriced under par performance pc.
I found this set of Crucial Ballistix Dual Channel 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz EPP Memory (2x 1024MB) for only $50 CAD. It's CAS Latency is 4-4-4-12
I really want to order this before they run out if it suits my system best (or close to best)
I have been reading up on ram for 4 days straight and it just gets more and more complicated. A few people say that the 8500 and 6400 are identical and that you can clock the 6400 up to the same speed as the 8500 with the same voltage and same latency, like raise the latency and speed on the pc6400 to the exact same as the stock pc8500 of the same brand, and vice versa with lowering. Is that true ? If not how much faster would the crucial balistix 8500 be after ocing ?
Also i was curious if water cooling could be added to this ram. Or to any ram that doesn't come with it pre-installed on it. And if i went 64bit down the road how much boost in performance would i get from having 2x2gig vs 2x1gig.
I know i am a noob but i am trying hard not to make noob mistakes. I would rather look dumb asking a question than look dumb with a overpriced under par performance pc.