BF2S Forums Finally going to upgrade but I need suggestions

check out the open box section on newegg if your ordering from there.

jaymz9350 wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

_j5689_ wrote:

And I know I'm gonna get yelled at for this but some DDR2 667 at the lowest latency possible, and it's my first venture with G.SKILL.  I got two sets of it for 4GB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … 6820231119

WHY!?!?!?!?!?

PC5300? Are you mad?

Did you just get one big stick so you can run it in single channel mode?


Latencies mean fuck all. You may see benefits from lower latencies on newer i7 based systems, like you used to see on older AMD systems due to the memory controller being on the CPU, but not with any of the hardware you are getting. That system will benefit far more from higher frequencies than low latencies and it doesn't cost any more.

If you actually bought PC5300 RAM you're an idiot.

Well he was warned.  And the timing he got aren't any better than you can get in pc 6400, I just bought a set of gskill pc6400's with 4-4-4-12 for a buddy for a few $$'s more than that 5300.

I know. Repeatedly. Some people just won't listen....

Nic wrote:

why does he ask for advice if he dosent want it....

I wasn't asking advice on what RAM to get, I was asking what RAM would match the FSB

Did I personally insult some of you or something?

It just doesn't make sense to me that a processor can use more bandwidth than it is allotted and by this point I had to penny pinch anyway to be able to afford the processor.  In any case, I'm just trying to get away from this Pentium 4 once and for all, so no matter what I use, I should be WAAAAY better off than I am now.

Maybe if someone can explain to me without being any bit insulting how the processor can take advantage of that much speed over an older design, then I'll get the faster RAM later on.  Maybe even show some benchmarks or something

_j5689_ wrote:

It just doesn't make sense to me that a processor can use more bandwidth than it is allotted and by this point I had to penny pinch anyway to be able to afford the processor.  In any case, I'm just trying to get away from this Pentium 4 once and for all, so no matter what I use, I should be WAAAAY better off than I am now.

Maybe if someone can explain to me without being any bit insulting how the processor can take advantage of that much speed over an older design, then I'll get the faster RAM later on.  Maybe even show some benchmarks or something

Sorry not trying to be insulting.  Not sure exactly how to explain it but the memory and CPU are pretty much independent so you can have the ram using a higher speed.  but in actuality your actual FSB is 1333 so the processor bus is still faster than the RAM.  Basically with Intel (at least up through S775 not sure of I7) more memory bandwidth you have the better regardless of the CPU's clock even if you have to sacrifice a little in the timings.