Hello all, I am about to embark on my first PC build which will be mainly for gaming. So at the moment i am in the process on buying all the components i need, the specs will be: Antec P182 Gunmetal Grey Case Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R GeForce 8800GT Windows Vista The Thing i am not sure about is which memory I should get, am looking to achive 4gb of memory and have around £100 budget. Any advice would be great, thank you for your time.
You could buy 2 sticks of A-DATA PC2-6400 2GB or the following 4GB (2x2GB) kits: OCZ XTC 4GB PC2-6400 OCZ Platinum 4GB PC2-6400 Corsair XMS2 4GB PC2-6400. Any of those options would get you what you want with cash left over. There are other options of this speed grade, but they're over the mark, and you didn't mention overclocking.
Thanks Big B, Thanks for your reply. Do you know if these are compatible with the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard, the list from Gigabyte is useless, so hard to know what is best. Thanks for your time
generally just look at RAM speed, B recommended RAM that had a speed of 6400, 6400 will run at lower speeds but if you install RAM with of higher speed it will only run as fast as the slowest RAM, generally, any RAM will function with just about any motherboard but only if that motherboard uses the same type of RAM you have (DDR, DDR2, etc.) you only really have problems getting new & old memory to work together BTW: this is igroring custom hardware
If you are using Vista 32-bit or any other 32-bit operating system for that matter, purchasing 4GB of RAM will be a waste of time. You should look at getting 3GB as this is the maximum amount a 32-bit OS can read. I think the exact number is actually around 3.2GB but the last 200MB is insignificant. Vista-64 home can read 8GB, Vista Home prem = 16GB and Vista Bus/Ent/Ult = 128GB.
