Hey there guys...

One bit i'm rubbish at is picking memory... at the moment i have 4x 512mb of cheopo OCZ in.

I am wanting to up the size up to 3GB possibly....

I have an Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 motherboard.

Ive had my eye on the 4GB OCZ Reaper kits as they re pretty cheap and have good timing etc.... and i know that i will only end up with around 3GB of usable memory.

Its DDR2 pc-6400 btw.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

p.s. not bothered about overclocking really.... want to keep heat dissipation down to a minimum!

Thanks

Phil

I was recommended Crucial from a Briskodian when I upgraded to 4GB RAM last month.

Very quick delivery and reasonable prices as well. The system scanner is a good tool as well for finding the right kind of memory for your system.

Memory upgrades, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com

Yep, use them, I got a 2Gb upgrade from them a while back for my old laptop.

Ben

cool... the "Ballistix" seem to get good reviews and they're about the same price as the Reaper X... but they don't have the fancy heatsinks on! lol

I went with 4GB geil 1066MHz `black dog`. Came in at the princly sum of £70 per 2GB, but is stable at that speed and past that too.

I went with 4GB geil 1066MHz `black dog`. Came in at the princly sum of £70 per 2GB, but is stable at that speed and past that too.

Do you have a link at all as im struggling to find exactly what memory this is.

Thanks

Phil

Geil Black Dragon PC2-8500 1066Mhz 2GB Kit (2x1GB) : gel-bd852g

Was Black Dragon, my mistake. Even cheaper than I thought too

Cool... thanks... have just looked on the novatech site and the 4gb pc2-6400 kit is only £60!!

Bargain!

Either that or i do go for 8500 stuff in case i want to upgrade my mobo at any point...

Thanks

Phil

What graphics are you running cos when they say 32bit windows can only address 4gb of ram that includes: RAM, GPU memory and CPU cache. so as i have 2 8800gt's with 512mb each and 2 GB of ram, if i added another Gb of RAM i wouldn't see an extra GB as my CPU cache is 4mb. IMHO if your going to run that amount of ram use Vista 64bit or XP 64 if your system doesn't use DX10.

Ive got a single GTX... so 768...

8mb cpu cache too.

so it would be able to use 3gb surely?

Don't want to bother with 64 bit just for the sake of extra ram...

Phil

I run 4GB on 32bit OS.

You could run 36bit memory addressing (PAE) to see all of it including the 512MB (in my case) for the gfx card.

Hello Phil

The Corsair Dominator 8500 C5 might also be worth a look for you,stable,good warranty and the heatsinks your after:)

Mark

If your board can only do 800 and you are not interested in OCing it then sure get the cheaper stuff.

I'm running the geil stuff at 1066 and it really doesn't need the heatsinks IMHO. I think this makes a statement about the quality of the chips they have picked when they can run at that speak and not require additional heat spreaders.

You can buy the copper snap over heat spreaders if you like the effect, but for me I'm happy

I run 4GB on 32bit OS.

You could run 36bit memory addressing (PAE) to see all of it including the 512MB (in my case) for the gfx card.

you can run as much ram as you like in a 32bit environment. how much of it is used by windows is different. just cos its seen doesn't mean its being used.

Ive got a single GTX... so 768...

8mb cpu cache too.

so it would be able to use 3gb surely?

Don't want to bother with 64 bit just for the sake of extra ram...

Phil

Should be fine. but i would rather have 2gb of fast dual channel ram then 3gb of single.

Crucial is available pretty cheaply from ebuyer. Free postage too if you spend over £50.

Cheezemonkhai might not be running Windows though, Linux is good for upto 64GB (I think), all 32bit too.

you can run as much ram as you like in a 32bit environment. how much of it is used by windows is different. just cos its seen doesn't mean its being used.

If you use 36bit PAE windows can use all 4GB as it just moved the gfx card out the way. The issue you may have is some badly written drivers can cope with this.

Linux will happily use over 4GB in a 32bit system and so will windows if you turn on PAE.

Should be fine. but i would rather have 2gb of fast dual channel ram then 3gb of single.

But dual channel means you use 2 slots so 2* 2GB @ 800MHz is going to be just as good as 4*1GB @ 1066MHz if the motherboard can't clock the RAM any faster than 800MHz.