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Strobemeister

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I'm about to order some RAM, primarily for gaming, specifically WOW.
I have my eye on a pair of OCZ Gold Edition 2x1gb sticks.
Any comments? Good or Bad?
I was going to buy Corsair Valueselect, but am now considering this more expensive option. Is it much better. Ram was a real problem for me on WOW.
 
For just playing WoW, Corsair would be good, also lifetime warranty. But if u wanna impress your mates and girlfriend go with the OCZ Gold. :D
 
the big question is are you going to be overclocking? if not the corsair value select will be perfect.
 
Nice sticks,would be sad to see those rot away at stock timings though....
Verdict:Overkill
 
Yep agree with ED, I am running Corsair Value select and even overclock a little. Cant see the point in spending a fortune on ram that makes almost no difference unless you overclock.
 
I have a pair of Extreme Low Latency Corsair sticks which can do CL2 @ 200FSB, which clock no better than Samsung Originals, as the later motherboards like my NF3 set-up, is running at 10x265FSB, so I have to set the Corsair at CL3 anyway.
Personally I think CL2 sticks died out with the NForce2 Boards?

Edit.
I know someone that has Corsair CL2 sticks(2x512) mixed with Samsungs(2x1024) on a Asus A8N Sli set-up and he cannot overclock at all.
 
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Yeah the Corsair RAM is perfect. "Gaming" RAM so to speak is just for marketing purposes and do not translate into a big leap in real-world performance.

Search on Google: "Value RAM vs. Gaming RAM" and you can see the results.
 
What about those heat spreaders, aren't they worth it? I suspect that my RAM was overheating, i can play any game with my current RAM, 3 sticks of 256mb cant even remember what, except WOW, keep getting that stupid 132error.
I'm not saying the RAM will fix it, but i hope it will. Its a patch up until i upgrade my mobo/cpu/vidcard.
Checking the forums, it seems as if my particular board is reading the ram timings incorrectly, or something to that effect.
 
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What about those heat spreaders, aren't they worth it? I suspect that my RAM was overheating, i can play any game with my current RAM, 3 sticks of 256mb cant even remember what, except WOW, keep getting that stupid 132error.
I'm not saying the RAM will fix it, but i hope it will. Its a patch up until i upgrade my mobo/cpu/vidcard.
Checking the forums, it seems as if my particular board is reading the ram timings incorrectly, or something to that effect.
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Try swopping the order your RAM is in now. It might just be a bad sector in one of your RAM chips.
 
Loosen you timings in the BIOS, higher is looser, see if that helps.

And get value RAM, there is almost no real world difference.

Heat sink will get more important with higher frequencies like DDR2 will get sometime, not really neccesary right now.

You will save big bugs if you just get value RAM, maybe get another harddrive (can never have enough harddrive space) with the savings.
 
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I have changed the timings, didn't help. Its also definitely got something to do with the temp, only ever had probs when the weather was hot. At the beginning of the season, i could play on cool days, but not when it was hot, eventually it was hot all the time. my cpu temp was never over the top, so i don't know whats up.
 
is wow very graphic intensive

you might dual 7800 512 meg cards to play it yea imagine how it would look then :)
 
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