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Hello.
New system specs are:
E6600 or E6420 (when it comes out), Gigabyte DS3, evga Superclocked 8800 GTS.
System use is mainly university stuff, some heavy applications now and then and games.

I want to get some 2gb 800mhz ddr2
Options are (not US prices):
- Corsair Dominator CL4 @ 400$
- OCZ CL3 @ 400$
- OCZ CL4 @ 300$
- Some Kreton\LD CL5 @ 200$

My question is how important CL is to this setup, and what would be the difference in performence.

Thank you

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The money would be best spent elsewhere. It might be worth it on an AMD system, but for core 2 duo it makes for a truly pathetic increase in real world apps.

Read this pithy summary from Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdo [...] i=2810&p=7

Get the cheapy OCZ, if I were you. It is important that the memory is stable.

I nicked the link off this other thread which you might find useful:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/har [...] 30#1233230

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