Socket 754 vs. 939 and Low Latency vs. Value RAM, HELP !!

[millerhighlife_]

Building rig for gaming mostly, but on a budget. Question is, what's the advantage socket 939 has over 754 ? I was looking at a AMD64 3500+ Socket 939 but I may not be able to fit that in my budget. Now I'm looking at a AMD64 3200+ or 3400+ Socket 754 because they are a good bit cheaper. Will I regret not getting 939 ?
Also, I was thinking about Corsair XMS Extreme RAM 1GB(512x2) because of all the great reviews of it. But after reading a PC World article on how low latency memory dosen't offer substantial boosts, will I be ok buying something like Corsair Value RAM ? Remember this is for gaming. Do any of you use another brand of memory that's not "namebrand" like corsair or kingston for gaming and still get great results ? I have around $150 for RAM. Keep in mind I need 1GB. Don't wont to go over by more than that by $5 or so. But if XMS is that much better I may try. Please, offer suggestions.

 

[Apokalipse]

you can get a 3000+ or 3200+ in socket 939; the difference is a 2GHZ FSB rather than 1.6GHZ, and support for dual channel DDR RAM
I suggest you get a 3200+ socket 939 with an Abit AV8 3rd eye

personally I think you'd be better off getting PC4000 RAM if you want more performance, since lower latencies does not give that much performance boost
Transcend's PC4000 RAM performs better than Corsair's

 

[millerhighlife_]

Ohhh, so 754 dosen't support dual channel ram ? Ewww, I will definately get socket 939 now. Thanks for that info apokalipse !

 

[beedubaya]

Yea, get socket 939. Somebody on this forum with socket 939 performs way better than I do even with an X800 Pro. You really want that duel channel capability, and also, PC4000 *drool* RAM. I have low latency RAM myself and it doesn't give that much of a performance increase.

 

[Morpheus]

Get the 939 because it supprots dual chanNel DDR RAM

 

[GeckoEcho421]

Get 939 socket because amd has future plans where you can plug in 2 proccessors into ONE 939 pin slot. Woohoo.

 

[ag3]

apokalipse - The LDT Bus has the same configuration on all 64-bit platforms.

· HTT is rated at 800 Mhz (1600 Mhz @ 64-bit).

· The Bus can handle up to 1000 Mhz (2000 Mhz @ 64-bit).