Putting together a build for myself that I'll hopefully be ordering pretty soon and I've found two pretty good sets of RAM that I can't really decide between so II'm hoping you guys can help me out. First set is by Corsair: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820145034 Second set is by G.SKILL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820231065 Thanks.
Yeah if the performance is equal I'll most likely go with the Corsair, I'm just posting this to see if there actually are any real dfferences in perofrmance.
G-Skill and Corsair are pretty much the same, same timing... I say go Corsair, you can save a few bucks..
They use the same ICs and i beleive they have the same or nearly the same SPDs, of the two choices corsair is the better... ================================= but how about another alternative - http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120619 http://www.tankguys.biz/ddr2-3338-p-1690.html same ICs(atleast on the same manufacturing process, they're binned lower but the diference is minimal) as the two above, but has a much lower SPD which is handy to those using 965 chipsets and AM2 boards all choices listed thus far have approximately the same clockeability. if you dont' give a care about heatspreaders... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820144157 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...st=pricegrabber i want to make sure though, I beleive they are micron D9GKX ICs but kingston is somewhat inconsistant, they have tendancies to exchange for shid.
I was under the assumption that DDR2 800 is better/faster than DDR2 533? Have I been wrong this whole time? And you mentioned that your first two are good on certain types of boards, this is the board I'm looking at getting: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813121016 It says DDR2 Standard: DDR2 667, this means I can only get up to PC5400 667MHz, not DDR2 800?
you can put 800 ram in a 677 ram mobo, it just may not take it. but even then, some may not even take 677... My old ASRock, Socket A board did that to me, it said it was SDRAM 400 compatable, I put in some 400 ram, and it ----ed it up, i had to buy an upgraded board.
you can put any speed RAM into any board(assuming the default voltages match up clsoe enough) and just change the timings appropriately Merged Post: it is it's just that that DDR533 at 1.8V(it can run at thsoe specs with just 1.6V though) can hit DDR2-1066 at 2.2V(and safely) the DDR2-800 can also do this, but it costs more and also has an SPD which defaults to 2.2V which means that on boards which default to 1.6V it won't startup(you have to use a cheep stick of RAM set it to 2.2 V and then swap after) all the kits listed here use effectively the same ICs so they are more or less capabel fo the same performance.
You mustn't know what the hell your talking about, G.Skill is the second best ram company, only under GeIL, and under G.Skill is OCZ, then Corsair.
