My mother's computer.

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I"m still trying to find out what kind of ram set up I want to go with. And don't tell me, "your mom doesn't need... blah blah blah". I'm tring to find out what will run the best. As in speed.

I know my mom wouldn't do this but lets say she was converting a vhs useing the audio/video to DV convert, and ripping a cd and playing doom 3 at 1600x1200. Any computer is getting it's butt kicked at this point. If this was the case what ram sett up would run the best?



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Two sets of these.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-141-194&depa=0
(If you can find ram like this that runs just as fast from new egg and costs less. Let me know.)
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Four sets of these.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-220-030&depa=0
(I know this ram is slower, but the only faster gig sticks I could find was only 2.5 and was like $1,000,000.)
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Two Sets of these.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-227-202&depa=1
(4200? What the heck. Can my board even take this?)
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Two Sets of these.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-144-143&depa=1
(Once again. WTH? 4300? Cost alot, but maybe it's worth it.)
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So what's the best setup?
Thanks again everyone for your imput. It's helped alot so far.
 
Don't go above PC3200 as there's absolutely no point in doing so, so I don't know why you're looking at PC4000 and RAM like that. For one your board I'm not sure if it'll even actually support that, but even if it did you'd be creating a huge bottleneck between your CPU and RAM since your CPU won't have the same FSB as the RAM unless you went in and changed the FSB and multiplier which on a 64bit chip the multiplier is probably going to be locked so you won't get to do that.

Get these:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-896&depa=1

Put it in your moms computer, stand back for 2 years and let 'er fly. That'll last you long enough, has enough speed, and is in the same pricerang as what you were looking for.

It's a good brand, low latencies (which you're going to have to set the timings in the BIOS yourself, they do have 'Plug-and-frag' ram where you just put it in and it times itself to the appropriate timings, but generally you gotta set it yourself)

The MSI Neo2-Platinum is a good board though, you'll like it, or your mom will rather.
 
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Thank you Nubius for your post.
I have some questions.
What ram is better. The one you posted or this:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-141-148&depa=1


Also, is the ram you listed Dual Channel ram? I was under the understanding thatyou need Dual Channel ram to run it in Dual Channel. If i'm wrong about that, let me know.


Is Runing this top of the line ram faster and more powerful then running 4 gigs of ram that has a Latency of 3?

Anyone write me back with the awnsers if you have them.

THANKS AGAIN ^^
 
TheMajor said:
There's no such thing as dual-channel RAM. All you need are 2 identical DDR sticks.

you can buy dual channel RAM kits. they are hand-picked and guaranteed to work together. if you just get 2 seperate sticks it's not guaranteed they will be fully compatible with eachother.
 
Well, here is what I suggest, a 2.8 P4 with HT, a gig of kingston ram, a 64 mb gfx , a socket 478 DFI infinity, SHE DOESNT NOT NEED AMD! I REPEAT SHE DOES NOT NEED AMD!, she isnt doing anything that requires that kind of power. Just because you have 3000 bucks, doesnt mean you have to use it to buy unnecessary stuff, like 4 gigs of ram, which 2 gigs probably wont ever be used anyway, but save that money, and buy a kick ass monitor, like a 23 inch LCD.

JMO

Alex
 
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