I.T Question - RAM, Recommendations & Best Place to Buy?

According to Crucial, the following types of RAM suite my computer:

DDR PC2700

DDR PC3200

I would like two 1gb sticks.

I've been on Amazon and the prices vary dramtically. Looking at the Kingston RAM, they have a few types. Is there a difference between their normal RAM and their value RAM?!

Any advice / recommendations / Info and where to buy tips appreciated.

Ta

Matt

Bought mine direct from Crucial.

Top service and no problems

Corsair are very good when it comes to RAM, make the the RAM is clock 2. (Or am I out of date now?)

The most 'compatible' type of RAM I have come across is the kingston value stuff.

DDR 3200 is rather pricey, in comparison to DDR 2 stuff.

YHPM in regards to what to buy and from where

Thats the same type or RAM my PC takes. Its getting very pricey these days. I recently paid about £30 for a 1Gb stick (can't remember the make).

Bascially, things have moved on. 1Gb of whatever ram my girlfriend's PC takes (240 pin) costs about a tenner.

Grab some now while you still can

Are you overclocking or just running normal fsb? Do you plan on playing with the memory timings or speed or do you just want to drop the new sticks in and see a performance gain?

PC3200 is DDR SDRAM designed to operate at 200 MHz using DDR-400 chips with a bandwidth of 3,200 MB/s. As DDR stands for Double Data Rate this means that the effective clock rate of PC3200 memory is 400 MHz. DDR PC2700 runs at 333Mhz.

what are your computer specs?

i can get you 2 brand new 1gb sticks of Kingston = 2gb kit of pc3200 $120 Australian

DDR 3200 is rather pricey, in comparison to DDR 2 stuff.

Tell me about it! bizarrem it's like 3x as expensive!

YHPM in regards to what to buy and from where

Cheers, i'll go for that

Thats the same type or RAM my PC takes. Its getting very pricey these days. I recently paid about £30 for a 1Gb stick (can't remember the make).

Seems to be the going price

Are you overclocking or just running normal fsb? Do you plan on playing with the memory timings or speed or do you just want to drop the new sticks in and see a performance gain?

Just putting the sticks in. Wouldn't want to start fiddling with stuff like overclocking. Don't know enough and don't really need to. I don't play games or anything like that on the it.

PC3200 is DDR SDRAM designed to operate at 200 MHz using DDR-400 chips with a bandwidth of 3,200 MB/s. As DDR stands for Double Data Rate this means that the effective clock rate of PC3200 memory is 400 MHz. DDR PC2700 runs at 333Mhz.

 

what are your computer specs?

That's a bit to much tech spec for me

i can get you 2 brand new 1gb sticks of Kingston = 2gb kit of pc3200 $120 Australian

It's about the going price over here too.

Here's a question;

I've just thought. The max RAM my computer can take it 2gb. I have a graphics card that has 256meg of RAM dediacted to graphics. The two don't relate do they? I'm assuming it's just the RAM slots that can't take any more than 1gb each?

Best to know for sure first though!

Ta

Matt

Here's a question;

 

I've just thought. The max RAM my computer can take it 2gb. I have a graphics card that has 256meg of RAM dediacted to graphics. The two don't relate do they? I'm assuming it's just the RAM slots that can't take any more than 1gb each?

Correct, they don't relate. When they say your computer can take 2GB of RAM, what they specifically mean is that your motherboard can take 2GB of RAM in its RAM slots. The RAM that is integrated onto a graphics card is completely separate (sometimes called "video RAM", or am I out of date here?). Your motherboard will have a different set of requirements about what type of graphics card it can take (usually these requirements are pretty simple: boils down to the style of connector on the graphics card).

Edit: getting the right RAM is not always a simple process. My PC is old and takes 168-pin PC133 RAM (that's very expensive BTW: over £50 for 512MB IIRC!). I have to ensure I get RAM with the right clock speed (133MHz or 100MHz), latency (CL2 or CL3), EEC value, parity and density. Also, each slot on the motherboard will have a maximum capacity it can take (my mobo can take 1.5GB, but only a max of 512MB per slot). I can't just ask for some PC133 and drop it in. Hopefully the more modern stuff is less of a faff to upgrade, but best to be aware.

Places to buy from;

http://www.ebuyer.com

http://www.dabs.com

http://www.overclockers.com

Correct, they don't relate. When they say your computer can take 2GB of RAM, what they specifically mean is that your motherboard can take 2GB of RAM in its RAM slots.

Cheers Stevie, i thought that would be the case Best to make sure

http://www.ebuyer.com

Damon PM'd me a link to some Kingston RAM on ebuyer.

Bought 2 sticks of 1GB RAM for 60 pounds. Seems to be the going rate for this type of RAM, other types are so much cheaper.

I'll let everyone know how it performs.

Was just going to say PM me your address i have loads of that old memory kicking around as i scrap P.C's and would have sent some up.