matched Geil, Corsair, or Kingston

[PhoenixKnights]

Hey there it's me again... still deciding which ram at first I was thinking I'd go GeIL then I was looking at the site that I was shopping from and noticed that they have Kingston for a good price too. The difference? Kingston isn't comming in a pair, and supposedly the GeIL which is is a matched set (latency and everything in sync or something like that I was talking about it with a friend and not everything sunk in) however some have said that Kingston is better ram so take a look at these 2 things and tell me which you think would be a better thing to get for someone who's getting a Abit board with a 865pe chipset (I can't remember the model number), a 2.8ghz P4 processor with 800 fsb, and wants to overclock it to 3.22 14x230 (if I remember right)

1. this: http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=862&showit=1

or

2. 2 times this: http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=1019

oh and Just for fun I checked corsairs and found a product that is within my price range on the site (I'm really starting to like this site)

so or again...

3. 2 times this: http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=533

Thanks guys

 

[Stain]

First of all, clickable links:
<A HREF="http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=862&showit=1" target="_new">GEIL 1GB PC3500 DDR433 DUAL CHANNEL DDR KIT</A>
<A HREF="http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=1019" target="_new">KINGSTON 512MB PC3200 HyperX Ultra</A>
<A HREF="http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=533" target="_new">Corsair CMX512-3200C2 512MB DDR SDRAM</A>

Now, for overclocking it would be better to use pc3500 than pc3200. So that elimanetes the kingston/corsair pc3200 models you selected but they do have pc3500 versions on the site as well as OCZ's pc3500. Looking at the pc3500 sticks the GeIL has better timings and costs less. And looking even farther down the list they have <A HREF="http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=1145" target="_new">GeIL Golden Dragon Dual DDR 1GB 433MHz</A>. Its cheaper($16), probably because it doesn't have a heat spreader, but it does have the same timings and I think it looks cool (lol). Worth looking into

Everything considered, my money is on your first choice.
(actually I'm buying some Kingston HyperX soon because of <A HREF="http://www.kingston.com/x/" target="_new">Planetside deal</A> :tongue: )

 

[PhoenixKnights]

thanks stain, I'm a bit rusty on my html coding and I'm lazy so until just by doing what I normaly do I come across how to put things as links I'm just going to stay lazy and just copy and paste the links, I'm sure I'll remember eventually though. But I want to thank you for your advice. Can't help but wonder is there a place where I can buy a heat spreader for the Golden dragon ram? it looks like all it is is a piece of metal clipped to the ram to me so I figgure there has got to be something like that out there any recommendations?

 

[Stain]

They do sell them but they're pretty pointless. Heat spreaders are mostly for looks. <A HREF="http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/cooling/ttmemkit/" target="_new">Review of a Heat Spreader</A> (scroll to the bottom)

If RAM comes with heat spreader, yippie if not, oh well.

I'd guess they left the Golden Dragon w/o a heat spreader because it looks cool enuff.

 

[PhoenixKnights]

Thanks again stain, and somehow I can just sence the thrill (or would that be sarcasm?) behind that yippie so I'm amused. But I do want to let you know I'm thankful for all the help