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Originally Posted by Lasereth
I'm not really sure I understand your build here. If you don't want to overclock your CPU, there's no reason to buy expensive RAM. Regular Crucial, Corsair, or Kingston will be fine for your PC if you're not gonna OC. It's twice as cheap and puts out the same performance as the expensive stuff (unless you're gonna OC). Good choice on getting a nice videocard though...that's where it counts. I'd also get 2 GB of RAM, especially if you plan on playing BF2 (that game is unbelievably ram-hungry). It's viable to get 2 GB of RAM nowadays when you can get 1 GB for $80. If anyone has ever told you that lowering the ram timings will increase performance, then they're simply trying to produce pretty 3d Mark numbers. You cannot tell a difference between low and high latency RAM...it's better to have more ram than faster latency ram, always.
-Lasereth
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Actually, in my experience this hasn't always been true. In fact, changing the timings on my (quite poor) generic RAM had a significant effect on speed. It could be that they were set incorrectly to begin with, but I left BIOS on "auto detect" for a long time before I figured out there might be a problem. Changing the timings affected a significant speed increase, particularly in load times (that kinda caught me off guard, but it worked). It may be just that I have poor memory, but in my current machine it's a fairly significant bottleneck. I'm just trying to avoid that in the next one. Like I said, my mind will almost definitely change before I actually buy it. I'm going to spend a lot more time looking into my particular options. Every decision I've made so far is liable to change, with the exception of the high end graphics card.
That I'm sure about.
And of course, I might end up waiting until UT2K7 is about to come out, to really push my machine. But then again, there's Elder Scrolls IV... oh god, the choices.
And MikeSty: Oops. See edit. And... which motherboards can you find that support higher frequency than PC3200? I can't find a single one. And which processors come in higher FSB (base) frequency than 200? I must be missing something here.