aussiehavoc- thanks for the timing limits, i completly missed that. as for 4x, instead of 2x, 512 sticks with those cas speeds are waaay more expensive.
bendsley- bingo! milliseconds or not, if I do do some encoding and such, those few seconds I save every hour are lovely
lasereth- ya, I wasnt looking high brand at all, in fact the ram I was looking at was
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