Building comp and need help! Critique Please!!!

[aerobahn]

first off where you buying this system from.?

Second the i875p Is the canterwood which is a little faster The i865p is the springdale which is a little slower but less $$.

Ill list the good ones i know off the top of my head.
I875p:

ASUS P4C800 the fastest of the mobos but around $178

ABIT IC7: great fast very stable priced at $129

Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 What i use: $147

Those are the best ones for canterwood. they all support 800mhz fronside bus and dual channel.

now I865p

ABIT IS7-E very fast and super overclocker. $99

ASUS P4P800 i865PE Faster than some canterwoods. $115

Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000Pro very stable but not that fast: $110
they all support 800mhz bus and dual channel.


All of those are fine mobos. Dual channel works like this. If you have 1 stick installed, the memory is stored at its normal bandwith. same as if you had 2 sticks. Dual channel motherboards splits the data between the 2 sticks of ram making the bandwith effectively double. but you need 2 of THE EXACT SAME RAM STICKS. any other questions?

[zyfe mural]

Err, im not getting it anymore, however, im interented i getting the right parts. Its all from pricewatch...which i kinda feel uneasy about, especially when it comes to video cards because you can easily overclock crap and claim it was something higher.... Any suggestions? Um, okay thanks for the info, my question for you is if the ram i originally chose to get will be compatible with the mobo...or do you have any suggestions for where i should get the two 512 sticks...

[aerobahn]

Number 1 repeat after me. ALWAYS buy from www.NewEgg.com they never rip you off, and their prices are cheep.

number 2. As long as it is DDR PC-3200 You are fine. ALso no GENERIC ram i only turst these;

kingston
corasir
GeIL
mushkin
twinmos
OCZ

Enjoy:spin:

[LifeofEternity]

www.PCmall.com seems to be good too and so is Crucial ram.

[aerobahn]

crucial ram has some good stable ram, but it cannot overclock very good.

Pcmall did not get a god review
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1868.html

but then again i have never purchased anything from them myself...

[zyfe mural]

Okay, im really liking the ASUS P4P800 i865PE Deluxe! at $133. But i wanted to know if it would be worth going for a refurbished one from newegg at $88, freeing room for the dual 512. Becuase right now I can only afford 2 X 256 sticks.

[LifeofEternity]

ABIT IC7:
http://www.motherboards.org/articles...ws/1170_1.html


GIGABYTE GA-8IG1000 PRO
http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewcont...p?ReviewID=149

Asus P4P800
http://www.motherboards.org/articles...ws/1261_1.html

Look I found a ranking system: http://www.motherboards.org/rank/Int...oard-rank.html

I believe Intel 875P is a chipset for a motherboard. That's what you get for using google. I don't know how reliable this information is though, it seems pretty good, aerobahn?

[aerobahn]

Originally posted by zyfe mural
Okay, im really liking the ASUS P4P800 i865PE Deluxe! at $133. But i wanted to know if it would be worth going for a refurbished one from newegg at $88, freeing room for the dual 512. Becuase right now I can only afford 2 X 256 sticks.

I really wish you would open up a lemonaid stand or something for an extra 100 bucks and buy the 1gig worth. Theres nothing better than having a full gig of ram to swallow applications like nothing. And like i always said MMORPG's need a gig for laglessness lol if there is such a word.

[sHaDoW hEal2t]

how important is it for your ram to be the same speed, and are there any pro's/con's to using 2 sticks vs. 3?

[aerobahn]

If you buy ram that is 3200
then you buy a stick that is 4000

all the ram will run to the slowest stick installed. so your 4000 stick will be running at 3200 speeds or 400mhz

Thier is no problem with 2 or 3 stick makes no difference, Unless you have dual channel. Dual channel works in pairs (2,4,6) and the ram must be the exact same type.