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Memory help

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eulf

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Well, today while I was lookin around, found a pretty good deal on some Kingston Hyper-X PC4000 Memory.
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9597684
I have a Gigabyte board of the 400/533 Fashion. I imagine the memory is mega overkill, but it would be a little more future proof than say PC3200. The memory at bestbuy is 512MB PC4000 Hyper-X and it's 115$ and 99.99 after a mail in rebate. I was hoping someone would be able to tell me why or why not i should or shouldn't get this stuff. I'll probably be picking up 2X512MB if I buy it. Can someone point me to a better deal perhaps?
 
Well, the basics are that PC 3200 and PC3500 have the best timings (CAS Latency etc). while PC4000 puts out faster mhz but has shit timings, therefore not really giving you a performance boost. Timings are really important when buying the ram and you should definitely pay attention to that, however, the ram you're thinking about does seem to be a reasonable price. Just double check the specs and make sure the timings aren't super loose.
 
None of my benchmark tests have shown that timings make a huge difference. I've also read several times that Intel systems don't get as much benefit from timings, that speed is more important. I bought this memory because it was at Best Buy real cheap. I can overclock my proc as far as I want, and my memory can keep up with a 1:1 ratio.
 
timings aren't the most important thing in an intel rig, however, IT DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE and PC4000 ram and up has very loose timings and causing basically very minimal performance gain. The benchmarks show abou 1% or less in certain benches and even fall behind pc3200 in others, thus not justifying the high cost of the ram in my opinion and probably many others on this site. It's like the ddrII which has to run at looser timings to be stable and isn't really better than its current ddr counter parts until scaled higher.
However, if you have the money or get a good deal like the gentlemen above, then sure why not.
 
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