Buffalo / Patriotic

[Fort_Major]

I am looking at purchasing the ASUS P5WD2-E Premium and I am wondering whether its worth purchasing DDR900 ram. Ideally I would like to have 2-4 gb of ram. I do lots of development, running multiple cpus via virtual pc

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

I see that OCZ, Patriot and Buffalo both offer several 2x1GB unbuffered Dual channel kits.

Patriot boasts CAS latency of 4 which is better then 5. Is it worth it? Is Patriot a trusted company?

Would this be excellent memory to pair with my motherboard? Any suggestions or comments?

Thanks.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

honestly, unless you're overclocking, i wouldn't bother with >ddr2-667

 

[Fort_Major]

Hmm is there any particular reason you say that?

The ASUS Pf2D2-E says that it supports 1066/800 mhz fsb and that it supports ddr2 standard 800 so wouldn't it take advantage of DDR2 800 and be capable of taking advantage of anything faster up to its max 1066 fsb?


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131589

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

because 1066mhz fsb is really 266mhz. running your ram 1:1 with that gives ddr2-533.
there are litte gains to be had from running too much over 1:1 due to bandwidth limitations on the fsb

check this out
http://www.techgage.com/review.php?id=4823&page=3

see how the bandwidth actually scales almost perfectly with the fsb, and not the actual ram speed?

 

[trust_no1]

I guess I'm not the only one who's frickin' confused about DDR2. I'm looking into AM2 and have no idea how to make my RAM selection.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

yeah, honestly i dunno what's really good and what's not either. time will tell though

 

[Fort_Major]

I say go with what the motherboard says is standard or faster if you are an OCer JUST SO YOU FEEL GOOD

 

[trust_no1]

That's basically the route I was taking.