Ram question.

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Ok guys I am having a bit of a dilemma here. I need to buy ram for my
system. I am building this for performance and am willing to pay for good
stuff. However I do not want to go wayyyy into left field where the price
to performance ratio is very low. I am thinking 1 Gig of ram. I am gonna
run a P4 2.8E(prescott) in a Abit IC7-G mobo. Also if this is mainly going
to be a gaming rig, is buying ECC ram really worth it?

TIA
-Chris
 
Chris Stolworthy said:
Ok guys I am having a bit of a dilemma here. I need to buy ram for my
system. I am building this for performance and am willing to pay for good
stuff. However I do not want to go wayyyy into left field where the price
to performance ratio is very low. I am thinking 1 Gig of ram. I am gonna
run a P4 2.8E(prescott) in a Abit IC7-G mobo. Also if this is mainly
going to be a gaming rig, is buying ECC ram really worth it?

TIA
-Chris
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I wouldn't buy Prescott for a performance / gaming machine, either an
overclocked Northwood or AMD. Prescotts run very hot (hotter than my
heavily overclocked Athlon) and performance isn't great.

Anyway, back to your main questions;
I've found the Corsair LL series to be excellent, also consider most OCZ
memory and Kingmax PC4000 Gold HardCore looks good in the reviews. ECC will
slow down your performance not increase it.

HTH
 
Chris Stolworthy said:
Ok guys I am having a bit of a dilemma here. I need to buy ram for my
system. I am building this for performance and am willing to pay for good
stuff. However I do not want to go wayyyy into left field where the price
to performance ratio is very low. I am thinking 1 Gig of ram. I am gonna
run a P4 2.8E(prescott) in a Abit IC7-G mobo. Also if this is mainly going
to be a gaming rig, is buying ECC ram really worth it?
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I jut got the cheapest branded CAS2 memory I could find, which happened to
be Corsair stuff (2x512MB, not 'matched pair') and used the rest of the
money towards a faster processor than I was originally intending (AMD64
3400+).

ss.
 
Chris said:
Ok guys I am having a bit of a dilemma here. I need to buy ram
for my system. I am building this for performance and am willing
to pay for good stuff. However I do not want to go wayyyy into
left field where the price to performance ratio is very low. I
am thinking 1 Gig of ram. I am gonna run a P4 2.8E(prescott) in
a Abit IC7-G mobo. Also if this is mainly going to be a gaming
rig, is buying ECC ram really worth it?
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Depends. If you are never going to store anything precious on it,
go ahead and save a buck. If you will never be upset by the need
to reformat and reload from CDRoms, go ahead. If you will never
be hurt by undetected failures in writing CDRoms, go ahead.

If you spend the buck you will probably take a huge 1% or so
performance hit.
 
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