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| h@x! Join Date: 11 Aug 2003 Location: the land of bandwidth cap
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Reputation: 2090 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 38 | For me.... 1GB of ram is a must and the graphics card need to be upgraded too.
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| Warming up Join Date: 9 Aug 2006 Location: Kingston, Jamaica
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which one is good (1GB)? 1) OCZ gold line 2) Kingston HyperX 3) Corsair XMS
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| h@x! Join Date: 11 Aug 2003 Location: the land of bandwidth cap
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Reputation: 2090 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 38 | Erm..... you don't need to get those expensive RAM if you don't overclock, just grab those value ones. However, if you DO overclock, the more important thing is to check out what kind of memory chips are used in the memory modules, not the brand of the memory modules. TCCDs and BH5s are famous for their overclockability
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Reputation: 20 ![]() Rep Power: 0 | for ur info... i luv overclocking... yes, i knew about and i do need high performance RAM... is OCZ gold line a good choice?
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Reputation: 2090 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 38 | LoL! like I said.... What kind of memory chips do they use in the OCZ Gold Line? I'm not familiar with OCZ memory modules.
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Kingston - BH5(i think so) but why do people hate Kingston HyperX? --- why is my reputation -1?
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i'm not sure about it... probably SLI mobo that support intel conroe.. my budget for mobo is USD93 (RM350)...
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Reputation: 97 ![]() Rep Power: 5 | its a bit hard to get a good (more than decent) mobo with RM350...i'm not saying there arent any good mobos with this price tags..just quite hard to find.. make it around RM450 that should be easier.. you wanna have an SLl one rite? |
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Reputation: 2630 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 37 | To check what memory chips a particular type of RAM uses: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=50010
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