Which Ram Should I Buy?

[oldfett]

Today was the end of my christmas shopping and I have enough for the ram upgrade I have been wanting forever! I know for a fact I want 2 gigs of ram in two sticks. I game heavily so that is mostly what my rig is built for but I dont want to loose all of my overclocking potential so I need to get some of the nice stuff.

I was leaning twords one of these....

 

G-Skill

OCZ

OCZ

Patriot

Mushkin

 

What are your proffesional opinions on these bad boys. Any other recomendations for ram is absolutly fine. I just want to get the very best ram I can, but if going any other direction will yield the same performance and less cash than im all ears!

 

Thanks

[MadMan]

I miskpoke in my post and when I relooked it over I see that on the Newegg site it is the Redline even though it does not say it...I say go with that muskin from Newegg...i was gonna say go with it directly from mushkin but I take that back...it is cheaper at newegg

 

I was looking at it here originally. As you see from newegg it is the redline and not the normal ddr500 that mushkin offers

Edited December 6, 2005 by MadMan

[ntguilty2]

is unbuffered better than buffered memory?

[oldfett]

I was eyeballing that mushkin ram heavily because of what I was reading on here about it being great. Its hard to pick becasue all thatram comes from great manufacturers and all seem to have great potential? Anyone else have any opinions?

[fire_storm]

is unbuffered better than buffered memory?

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I think unbuffered is faster then buffered or registered memory because the control singals have to go into the registered chip first and change into the dimm chip at the next system clock change. I belive it goes like this the reason is the address loading singal goes to every ram in the system and most systems can only have 4 memory slots or 32 address loads because if you had more it would be hard for the chipset to drive a heavly loaded singal and cause errors. But on a registered module there is 1 load per module and the registered chip drives all the rams on the module so it makes it easyer on the chipset. So don't get registered memory unless you get a lot of memory like 6gb or somthing higher then that.