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Chris_   04-02-2009 at 02:39:05 PM

Currently have:

Intel Core2 Duo E8500
ABIT IP35-E
4GB (4x1GB) Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (DDR II) 667 MHz
9800 GTX
OCZ SXS 600W

Need a RAM upgrade (looking at blazing fast stuff) and would also need to upgrade the motherboard as it only supports 667/800MHz RAM (see here).

Don't want to spend outrageous amounts but will pay a bit if it's awesome stuff!

I don't need SLI, RAID, etc, just new motherboard and fast RAM (6GB).

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caniba   04-02-2009 at 03:11:17 PM
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This would be a good option.

If you really need a new mb, get the gigabyte ep45-ud3r. With this ram and mb running the e8500 you could oc it to 3.8 easily. What OS are you running?

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Chris_   04-02-2009 at 04:00:35 PM
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XP Pro 32-bit at the moment, I dont want to overclock, and was thinking of moving to XP 64-bit or even Vista if I got 4GB+ RAM.

Is G.Skill available in the UK?

I was thinking blazing fast as in the latest DDR3 stuff.

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caniba   04-02-2009 at 04:14:22 PM
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Unless you upgrade to i7 ddr3 is not worth it. Don't get more than 4gb unless your OS is 64bit. Also unless you do a lot of photoshop or similar you will see no speed gain going from 4 to 6gb.

these are good options in the UK.

ocz

corsair

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theAnimal   04-03-2009 at 08:32:25 AM
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Chris_ wrote :

I dont want to overclock



Then there's no reason to buy a new mobo and faster RAM. It won't make any noticeable difference.

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jeremyrailton   04-03-2009 at 04:32:43 PM
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if you're not overclocking, the only thing that will be faster is the rate of money flying out of your account.

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