Recommendation required..

catchclouds

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Hi all,

I am new to the community. I have a Dell Studio XPS 435MT which I bought around 2.5 years ago.

Its config is as follows:

Intel Core i7 920 2.66 Socket 1366.
Ram is 8 GB pre installed.

Now I want to upgrade it to a high end pc.
I bought In Win Dragon Rider Case and ASUS SaberTooth X58 motherboard as I wanted to reuse my processor.
Can someone of you recommend me the RAM (min 16GB )and PSU for my PC. I dont play games much but I have database and few applications running which consumes more memory. I want to use 4x1TB and configure RAID 10.

Thanks in advance,
-Sasi
 

x Heavy

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I recommend getting one matched kit with enough Ram sticks to cover all of your DIMMs.

I bought a set of Quad channel ram as a matched set (cheaper too...) instead of two sets of two dimm kits for dual channel.

I was fortunate to discover the 4 Ram sticks were consecutive serial numbers and all made in the same month and year.