Best Memory option.

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DJ33

Geek Trainee
Hello all,
I am about to embark on my first PC build which will be mainly for gaming.
So at the moment i am in the process on buying all the components i need, the specs will be:
Antec P182 Gunmetal Grey Case
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
GeForce 8800GT
Windows Vista

The Thing i am not sure about is which memory I should get, am looking to achive 4gb of memory and have around £100 budget.

Any advice would be great, thank you for your time.
 
Thanks Big B,
Thanks for your reply.
Do you know if these are compatible with the Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard, the list from Gigabyte is useless, so hard to know what is best.
Thanks for your time
 
generally just look at RAM speed, B recommended RAM that had a speed of 6400, 6400 will run at lower speeds but if you install RAM with of higher speed it will only run as fast as the slowest RAM, generally, any RAM will function with just about any motherboard but only if that motherboard uses the same type of RAM you have (DDR, DDR2, etc.)

you only really have problems getting new & old memory to work together

BTW: this is igroring custom hardware
 
If you are using Vista 32-bit or any other 32-bit operating system for that matter, purchasing 4GB of RAM will be a waste of time. You should look at getting 3GB as this is the maximum amount a 32-bit OS can read. I think the exact number is actually around 3.2GB but the last 200MB is insignificant.

Vista-64 home can read 8GB, Vista Home prem = 16GB and Vista Bus/Ent/Ult = 128GB.
 
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