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Value Ram or Performance Ram?

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Rob978

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I currently have a 1gb stick of corsair value ram and am contemplating going for either another gig of the same ram or 2 1gb sticks of high performance ram, I use my pc for gaming and am curious weither it will make a difference framerate wise of using the 2gb of corsair value ram or 2gb of a low latency gameing ram such as patriot or XMS. Thx
 
PS, I'm not doing any overclocking and I play a lot of F.E.A.R., TES4 Oblivion, and Half-Life 2
 
I think the benchmarks showed less than a 5% improvement (more likely 0%) using performance ram at stock speeds. As you don't plan on overclocking, you'll be fine with the cheap generic stuff.

Even if you did want to overclock, the s939 A64s have been shown to not benefit a great deal from the extra bandwidth in games.
 
I have never really seen a BIG difference between the two. I just like the performance RAM because of the pretty heatsinks :D
 
Yes, I agree. Only go for HiPo RAM if your generic ram is holding back your CPU overclock.

I've got some Transcend 2.5-3-3-7 PC3200 sticks, and they're just fine at 225Mhz (2/3 divider), allowing my Athlon to get maxed out. Of course, it would be nice to run at 1:1, but the performance won't really be noticably better.
 
i was also wondering about this... im going to be doing the same... 2 x 1gb... was looking at the XMS stuff... but should i just stick with the value select? i probly wont ever overclock.. due to the fact i dont know how....
 
Nope, buying RAM rated for 250 MHz doesn't mean any extra performance at 200 MHz.

You're buying a SLI setup to use Microsoft Word.
 
I think only if you're going to do some heavy overclocking, then get performance RAM.
 
Do what I did... blow all your money on the prettiest looking ram that scrolls marquees and put your wife or girlfriends name on it. That will surely get you on their good sides... that's what I did! LoL
 
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