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Well my Crucial Ballistix 4gb of ram has died.  
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820146565
 
I've RMA and I decided going to use it on my brother computers.
 
So now I'm looking for new ram.
I never know whats benefit more for gaming when it comes down to ram.
Latency or Frequency.
 
A ram with 4-4-4-12 800 pc6400 timing or a ram with 5-5-5-15 1066 PC8500?
 
I just want the best but I'm NO overclocker when it comes to ram.
I was looking at these RAM here.
 
-Crucial Tracer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820148070
-OCZ Reaper
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227231
or the  
-Corsair Dominator (What's the different between these two?)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145173
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820145043
 
I' am buying their fan ether way.


Message edited by bsan89 on 03-15-2008 at 02:02:20 AM
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As a note, I don't the the OCZ would clear the fan. The heatsink might be too big, because the Dominator leaves only a bit of space itself. But then again, that OCZ with a seperate fan put on it would cool well too.

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The first ram link doesn't work for me.  The second one looks like a nice pair of Dominator sticks.


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the 1st link is a Crucial Tracer. 5-5-5-15 1066 pc8500
It got a nice LED feature too along with 2(1gb of ram)
 
Just wondering though. Should I look at the "1066 pc8500"
or look for timing, "4-4-4-12"
 
Which one more important?

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crucial is certified to run 1000mhz @ 5-5-5-15
 
i have the crucial tracer pc2 6400 @ 4-4-4-12 @ 1066mhz


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What FSB speed are you running (i.e. why do you want such fast RAM)?


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Ok your running a Intel CPU based on FSB so it doesnt really matter. The higher frequency RAM may give a little better performance but what you need is size, 2x2gig or 4x2gig. The huge cache on intels current CPUs negates a lot of the performance of the RAM. AMDs design and Intels next design wont use the FSB so they will depend more on RAM speed, ie: DDR3. Four gigs of DDR2 800 should be fine for you and be a bit cheaper then 1066 but there may be a little better performance with the faster RAM. I'm talking like 1-2% but it may be more, you should check some of the articles on Toms and other sites that compare this issue.


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I can bring DDR2 1066 to FSB 1333, will this guarantee better performance than 800MHZ CL4? Both in 4GB.


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