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Zabby   09-04-2008 at 12:42:39 AM

a couple months ago i built a pc the specs are listed below. It's not bad but by no means is it "top of the line" and the memory in it is crappy corsaid value select memory (VS1GB800D2). I have had no issues with this memory as of yet but is it holding my system back? If i were to swap out the 2gb i have currently for 2 gb of OCZ Platinum Revision 2 DDR2 800 would i see any change in system performance?





Asus P5n-e SLI Mobo
e8400 Wolfdale
2GB DDR2 800 corsair value select (VS1GB800D2)
512 MB 8800 GTS

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Nik_I   09-04-2008 at 12:50:08 AM
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i wasn't able to find very much info about that ram (apparently it's OEM only?) but if the timings aren't any different from the OCZ ram, then there would be no performance difference, although any 800Mhz ram is fine regardless of the timings, unless of course it's above 5-5-5-18.


Message edited by Nik_I on 09-04-2008 at 12:59:21 AM
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Zenthar   09-04-2008 at 01:17:27 AM
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At best, you might go from CAS5 to CAS4, but the gain will certainly not be worth much investment. If you are using Vista64, you might see a bigger difference by just ADDING 2 other GB of RAM instead on replacing it.

Other than that your system is seems fine as it is why would you feel something is holding it back?

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kamel5547   09-04-2008 at 01:20:39 AM
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*Shrug* if your trying to overclock the RAM may make the difference in how high of a clock you can reach, but at stock you won't be able to tell.

To be honest value select is fine for any non-overclock build, most memory (see Hyper-X, Dominator, Platinum) are sold mostly because people don't realize how insignificant the effect is compared ot other components.

Take a look at this chart to see how much of a performance difference (or lack there of)different timings make on their own:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2 [...] _timings/7

As usual GPU's and CPU's make a far greater difference than most components if trying to increase performance...

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