4gb ddr667@4-4-4 vs 4gb ddr800@5-5-5 vs 2gb ddr800@4-4-4

[Lazarus7]

Hi, I have a choice to make between the options in the title:

4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr667@4-4-4-12 for AUD$450
4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr800@5-5-5-15 for AUD$520
2x1gb sticks of Corsair Dominator@4-4-4-12 for AUD$465

It's going into a quite hi-spec machine..8800gtx, e6600, raptors etc which will be used primarily for gaming.

Any advice would be great

Cheers

 

[AeroB1033]

Doesn't matter that much with a C2D system, but you'd get the best gaming performance out of 2gb DDR2 800 with 4-4-4-12 timings. By "best", I mean marginally so, probably a couple of FPS in most situations.

 

[Lazarus7]

So do you reckon that I'd get better value by going 4gb? I like the sounds of having 4gb, so then should I get the 667 with the tighter timings or go the 800?

 

[AeroB1033]

4gb will actually decrease your performance in most situations over 2gb (latency is higher using all four DIMMs). I don't see any reason to have more than 2gb unless you're planning on doing specialized work that you know requires excessive memory usage. This doesn't mean gaming, it means 3D rendering, video editing, engineering, etc.

 

[Lazarus7]

Oh OK, well then I will probably just go the 2gb then, I guess later on down the track I can always stick in another 2gb as the situation requires.

Cheers

 

[corvetteguy]

Hi, I have a choice to make between the options in the title:

4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr667@4-4-4-12 for AUD$450
4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr800@5-5-5-15 for AUD$520
2x1gb sticks of Corsair Dominator@4-4-4-12 for AUD$465

It's going into a quite hi-spec machine..8800gtx, e6600, raptors etc which will be used primarily for gaming.

Any advice would be great

Cheers

Go with the 2 gigs, because you can run in dual channel. I would also avoid the ddr2 800 level dominator series as i'm pretty sure it runs on inferior chips, and just has cool pardon the pun heat spreaders. I would look at team group extreeme series or maybe gskill or something. They have micron chip i'm pretty sure, which is better for overclocking if your into that.

 

[Mondoman]

4 sticks will of course also run in dual-channel mode; however, your system will only be able to "see" (address) roughly 3GB even if 4GB are installed, unless you use a 64-bit OS. 32-bit Vista won't help on this.

 

[Lazarus7]

OK, I've had a look around and I found these two:

Team Xtreem 2gb ddr667@3-3-3-8 $445
Crucial Ballistix 2gb ddr667@3-3-3-12 $358

They both seem fairly good and are both micron chips, I especially like the price of the Crucial, what you reckon?

 

[f1nal_0men]

Hi, I have a choice to make between the options in the title:

4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr667@4-4-4-12 for AUD$450
4x1gb sticks of Team Elite ddr800@5-5-5-15 for AUD$520
2x1gb sticks of Corsair Dominator@4-4-4-12 for AUD$465

It's going into a quite hi-spec machine..8800gtx, e6600, raptors etc which will be used primarily for gaming.

Any advice would be great

Cheers

If your using Windows XP, and plan on using only Windows XP for awhile, 2GB.

If your using Windows Vista, or will upgrade to Vista soon, then buy 4Gb. Get the fastest you can afford. While using 4Gb wont make much of a difference now, it will in near future.

 

[corvetteguy]

OK, I've had a look around and I found these two:

Team Xtreem 2gb ddr667@3-3-3-8 $445
Crucial Ballistix 2gb ddr667@3-3-3-12 $358

They both seem fairly good and are both micron chips, I especially like the price of the Crucial, what you reckon?

Well from my experience i would say the team group stuff, however i am surprised they cost that much more, as thy were the cheapest brand when i got it. I would also make sure that is the extreem series and not the dark series as i don't remeber 667 ram. I would actually go for 800 ram because its seems to be their specialty. They also have 1060 ram but that comes at a premium.

 

[Lazarus7]

Yeah its not real cheap, here's the product link

http://www.teamgroup.com.tw/xtreem/overclocking/team-xtreem-ddr2-667mhz-cl-3%113%113%118/

It's only just come out down here. BTW if they are both based on the micron chips, what is the difference between the two?

 

[Lazarus7]

Oh yeah, and the crucial link:

http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=BL2KIT12864AA663

 

[corvetteguy]

I think you had 4-4-4-12 timing up top, but w/e those are just as good as the 800 versions. Based on price i'd go with crucial. You won't really see much of a difference if any. Plus you might have less hassle, because when i bought mine, the packaging they used was too small and bent the heat spreaders on all the ram sticks, mine was bent but still worked beautifully, but most were DOA.

PS. Holy shiznatch, you see the ddr2 1200 case 5 ram? 8O

DDR 1200 by team group

I wouldn't be surpirsed to see over 1300 with those timings, and mine, ddr 800 made it up to 1160 with 4-4-4-10 timings...

This is also a beautiful thing 8) especially for AMD users... DDR2 800 cas 3 RAM

 

[Lazarus7]

Yar I was looking at some cheaper stuff when playing with the idea of going 4gb, however now that I'm just gonna go with 2gb I thought I'd go with a bit better quality in the 667 range.

I think I'll go with the crucial ballistix, its nice and cheap and should perform well, and it'll run 1:1 with my e6600 at 2997mhz.

Cheers for all the help everyone

Oh and that ddr2 1200 looks mental