RAM question

[Combine Hybrid]

I need more RAM in order to play BF2 without no lag, or any other new games.
I have PC3200 DDR-SDRAM.

Which RAM memory would suit me well?

 

[Asus]

Another stick of Corsair or OCZ would probably do. How much RAM do you have now?

 

[Combine Hybrid]

512MB of RAM.

Just tell me which RAM should I buy in this site. 1GB of RAM would do fine or 2GB of RAM in minimum low budget.

http://www.pricewatch.com/

Or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...tegory=17&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=21&Go.y=29

 

[Asus]

This would be good.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

But I'm looking for 1GB of RAM. (2x 512)

 

[Asus]

If you buy another 512MB stick and use the 512MB that you have then you will have 1GB total.

If you want to ADD 1GB:
Do you have dual channel memory or single?
If you have dual channel memory then you would have to have an even number of sticks with the same amount of memory.

If you are going to use your existing 512MB stick and will be running it in single channel memory, get a 1GB stick (not 2x512MB). A lot of systems don't like 3 sticks so it might run the memory at a slower speed or higher latency.
Memory

 

[Combine Hybrid]

I currently have two 256 sticks, which makes total of 512MB of RAM.

I'm looking for dual channel which is 1GB (two sticks of 512 MB of RAM). And I'm most likely not going to use the current sticks and put those sticks on my old comp.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

so, which RAM would be good? Corsair?

 

[furiousV]

You can't go wrong with Corsair

 

[sinkoman]

OMFG WINBODN BH5!!@1!21!@2131

But yeah, Corsairs got some good out-of-the-box ram. If you plan to OC though, then i'd say go with OCZ instead.

 

[Tyguy]

whats OC

 

[Ennui]

overclock.

 

[holydeadpenguins]

What cpu you got?

 

[Combine Hybrid]

Intel Pentium 4

 

[holydeadpenguins]

sell those 2 256 sticks, and buy a dual channel kit, or just get 2 identical sticks, whichever is cheaper.

 

[Asus]

I'd get some PC3200 OCZ. Check out the Cas Latency because you can get CL2 or CL2.5 cheaper with OCZ than other brands and it's good stuff. FYI lower is better (2>2.5).

 

[Combine Hybrid]

Ok, here are all the informations for my RAM using CPU-Z program.

Module slot - DDR-SDRAM

Module Size - 256 MBytes

Max Bandwidth - PC3200 (200 MHz)

Manufacturer - Samsung

Frequency - 166 MHz l 200 MHz

CAS# Latency - 2.5 l 3.0

RAS# to CAS# - 3 l 3

RAS# Precharge - 3 l 3

TRas# - 7 l 8

Correction - None

Buffered - No


This info is same for the another RAM slot I have.