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Best dual channel memory for $$

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Turkish621

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I am looking at upgrading to an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with Barton 2500+ and a 36.7gb raptor hard drive. My only question is what to do about the memory. I am trying to stay on a tight budget and I have $85 left to spend on memory. I would like to get dual channel but am not sure what is the best to get right now.

I have been looking at getting this but just want to run it by people here. I will be doing only minor overclocking. Thanks up front.
 
your overclock will only be as good as your ram, keep in mind all ram is dual chan, buying it in a dual chan package just means your getting 2 of the same sticks of ram.

i dont know much about american prices or i would pick something out for you.
 
Right, I should clarify I guess. I want to run a total of 512mb in dual channel mode, 2 256 sticks.
 
Either the one your looking at or this will do. Although the Geil will probably be a tiny bit faster, I like Kingston, due to the great memory I hav gotten from them before. Although, I cannot speak for Geil, because I have never bought or used them before, so this is a slightly bias opinion.
 
Originally posted by Turkish621
Right, I should clarify I guess. I want to run a total of 512mb in dual channel mode, 2 256 sticks.
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Dont buy 2 sticks of 256MB so you can run dual channel on an AMD system. Even if you had money to blow dual channel on Athlon XP systems aren't worth it. You will see no performance increase from dual channel on that setup and some benchmarks will give you a 1-3% performance increase. Dual Channel performance on Athlon XP systems is very poor.

Buy one 512MB stick.
 
Well its pretty well known but just take a look at SiSoft scores or any bandwidth benchmark scores and see the difference between a Pentium 4 and Athlon XP.
 
Yeah dual channel doesnt do much for XP's. Also "tight budget" and "36.7 GB raptor" dont really go together. I would get 1 gig of ram and a 7200RPM instead.
 
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