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I ideally want to pay less than £80 and want 512mB. However, I have an Abit NF7 motherboard (NForce2) and was wondering what would be the best ram I could/should get and from where!
I'll let you guys beaver away on that one!!
I'll let you guys beaver away on that one!!
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I ideally want to pay less than £80 and want 512mB. However, I have an Abit NF7 motherboard (NForce2) and was wondering what would be the best ram I could/should get and from where!
I'll let you guys beaver away on that one!!
I'll let you guys beaver away on that one!!
[URL]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=ABIT%2B+Motherboards&mfr=ABIT&cat=RAM&model=NF7&submit=Go[/URL]
Great service, my RAM took 2-3 days to arrive, and I ordered Sunday.
Great service, my RAM took 2-3 days to arrive, and I ordered Sunday.
£80 would get you a single 512 Mb stick, of say Kingston HyperX or TwinMOS Twister, but what you would be better off with is 2 sticks of 256 Mb, so that you can take full advantage of the dual channel capabilities of the motherboard.
Corsair, Kingston HyperX, TwinMOS (even their value RAM, it overclocks rather nicely), OCZ, there are a bunch of memory manufacturers out there. If you are not going to overclock then a generic PC3200 stick would be fine. If you want to mess around and overclock, then you'll need something a bit better.
Corsair, Kingston HyperX, TwinMOS (even their value RAM, it overclocks rather nicely), OCZ, there are a bunch of memory manufacturers out there. If you are not going to overclock then a generic PC3200 stick would be fine. If you want to mess around and overclock, then you'll need something a bit better.
Okay..... I was looking at the Crucial stuff. (On the dual channel system point I was looking at adding another 512MB module a couple of months after the system was finished- then I WOULD go dual-channel- just with 512MB sticks!)
Would getting a stick of RAM (512MB) give better performance as a PC2700 CAS2.5 stick or a PC3200 CAS3.0 stick.
Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
Would getting a stick of RAM (512MB) give better performance as a PC2700 CAS2.5 stick or a PC3200 CAS3.0 stick.
Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
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Alexrose1uk wrote:
> Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto
> PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
Its normaly best to use the most chips you can to fill the sockets.
> Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto
> PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
Its normaly best to use the most chips you can to fill the sockets.
Alexrose1uk wrote:
> Okay..... I was looking at the Crucial stuff. (On the dual channel
> system point I was looking at adding another 512MB module a couple of
> months after the system was finished- then I WOULD go dual-channel-
> just with 512MB sticks!)
>
> Would getting a stick of RAM (512MB) give better performance as a
> PC2700 CAS2.5 stick or a PC3200 CAS3.0 stick.
That is fairly poor performance. There is much better out there.
>
> Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto
> PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
If you use three sticks you lose the ability to run in dual channel mode, so it isn't really worth it.
I say get yourself a 512 Mb of TwinMOS value stuff, PC3200 CAS 2.5, then when you can get another stick of it. Costs about £45-50. Overclocks not to bad as well, so you could get faster than that out of it.
> Okay..... I was looking at the Crucial stuff. (On the dual channel
> system point I was looking at adding another 512MB module a couple of
> months after the system was finished- then I WOULD go dual-channel-
> just with 512MB sticks!)
>
> Would getting a stick of RAM (512MB) give better performance as a
> PC2700 CAS2.5 stick or a PC3200 CAS3.0 stick.
That is fairly poor performance. There is much better out there.
>
> Also interested as the Abit NF7 will let you use 3 sticks of upto
> PC2700 memory, but only 2 if you use PC3200
If you use three sticks you lose the ability to run in dual channel mode, so it isn't really worth it.
I say get yourself a 512 Mb of TwinMOS value stuff, PC3200 CAS 2.5, then when you can get another stick of it. Costs about £45-50. Overclocks not to bad as well, so you could get faster than that out of it.
Does TwinMos stuff work with the Abit NF7 as I've seen warning on the overclockers.co.uk recommending you don't use it with NForce2 boards?
Cheersm, if it does work perfectly I may go for that!
Cheersm, if it does work perfectly I may go for that!
That confused me. I'm running two sticks of it, in dual channel mode, at the moment. Had it overclocked to 227 MHz at CAS 2.5 timings on only 2.6V. Which is good.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> That confused me. I'm running two sticks of it, in dual channel mode,
> at the moment. Had it overclocked to 227 MHz at CAS 2.5 timings on
> only 2.6V. Which is good.
What motherboard are you using?
What I was referring to was the comments I'd read on sites, and on the Overclcokers site, that TwinMos ram doesn't work properly with some NForce2 motherboards, and as such Overclockers doesn't recommend it.
What board are you using?
> That confused me. I'm running two sticks of it, in dual channel mode,
> at the moment. Had it overclocked to 227 MHz at CAS 2.5 timings on
> only 2.6V. Which is good.
What motherboard are you using?
What I was referring to was the comments I'd read on sites, and on the Overclcokers site, that TwinMos ram doesn't work properly with some NForce2 motherboards, and as such Overclockers doesn't recommend it.
What board are you using?
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