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Iratus

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Ooo er missus.

I had a module of ram die in my PC last night and so need a replacement matched pair but am not sure which road to go down.

I have looked at the 2GB PC4400 Kits from Crucial but at £233 ($419) that seems a bit steep so if there is a closet high performer out there I'd like to hear about it.

I'm running a 4400+ processor so practically speaking I need 2 modules at 250mhz max, I can't see the chip getting near 2.75ghz let alone surpassing it but again if this is incorrect please let me know as I have just ordered one of those below ambient water coolers from CoolIT so it may do.

A8N SLi Premium
AMD 4400+ Processor
7900GTX (if that makes a difference to anything :-/ )

A lot of this could be resolved by reading this forum in depth I'm sure but my eyes glaze over when people talk about revisions and chip types etc. I operate on a Choice a = Win Choice B = suck basis so if anyone has any recommendations please let me know.

Ta

Iratus
 
Gskill extreme DDR500 2GB kit...In the US it is at $160 from newegg. should not be too bad for you in GBR.
If you are lucky, it will overclock pretty well. Mine is average and the kit can get up to 273Mhz.
 
I have/had Corsair PC3500 (217mhz) 2-2-2-5 modules from about 2 years ago.

They sucked, went to PC3500 and not 1mhz further. One finally died. Excuse to give overclocking a proper shot ;)
 
512mb sticks i assume? just RMA them, who knows what interesting goodness corsair might send you back, and it saves you money ;)
worst case scenario, you don't like the stuff they give back, you can sell em and use that money towards other ram :D

know that you can "give overclocking a proper shot" with any ram, just lower the memory ratio if you ram becomes the limiting factor. i promise you the ram speed difference is unnoticeable in the real world :cool:
 
They weren't bought as a matched set though they were just two individual dimms, so if I rma one then I only get one back and as you say they are only 512mb so I'm not going to get anything great back.

That said it should be a decent 512mb stick that I'd get in return for an RMA so I'll give it a shot and then sell those 2 512mb modules to off set the cost of my new memory.
 
Yep good set. Have been happy with them since I rmaed and sold the good but deadly (literally) crucial ballistix 2Gb set.
 
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