Faster ram or more of it. What would you do and why?

[shagathlete]

I currently have the opportunity to either have this ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145524 or this stuff:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145503

For those who don't wish to follow the links the first is a gig of Corsair XMS Pro Model 3200XLPRO. The second is 2 gigs of XMS PRO. Now I just started getting deeper into building machines and I don't know much about latency but from what I have read the first set of ram has ideal latency but is only 1 gig. The second set has non-ideal latency but is double the amount of the first. So what should I do? What would you do? What would be the benefits of one or the other? I'm on a quest for knowledge so the more information the better. Thanks to any and all who contribute!

 

[mpjesse]

As Tom's and other articles have shown, 2GB of RAM is almost completely useless. Get the 1GB of low latency stuff.

-mpjesse

 

[shata]

Get the first one, and if you want 2gb buy 2 of them and still get the nice 2-2-2-5 timings.

 

[AlaskaFox]

depends on what you do. MMO's dont have the advantage of caching the entire level like single player games. take WoW or EQ2 for example, and I am sure you will notice some difference with more capacity. however for 9/10's of other apps, Lower Latency will beat capacity most of the time (hence the arguements on if DDR2 is worth it). I am by no means an expert so feel free to shoot my ideas down. :tongue:

 

[shagathlete]

Thanks for the help. I do play MMO's but the majority of my gaming is fps stuff. But for the most part I just run a lot of applications at once. Thanks again for all the feedback.