Lamil

good deal? idk?

Newegg.com - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

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Osime

best part of that page was the "manufacturers response" to the first comment... basically "O Hai guyz... we has more better bigger memries too"

Though decent price for 4GB, still partial to Corsair but haven't investigated g-skill.

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The Gskill rep who helped me back in 2006 was friggin awesome. Sure he had broken engrish, but I chatted with him on yahoo for hours and hours, good guy, and I will only ever buy gskill now because of him.

As far as this being a good deal, I dunno, I will shop around tonight if I have time lamil


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Looks fine to me, but why not get 4 sticks of 1gb?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231098

Will cost a few $ more, but seem to be better @ OC'ing.

Of course disregard this if you only have like 2-3 slots or something...

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Lizerd Keng

because 2gb sticks leaves room for upgrades. oc'ing your ram alone does little

Faxon

that stuff is horrible for overclocker boards though because it is only 800, so you cant push it as far when you overclock your CPU so high you end up with a memory bottleneck and overclock it to compensate. also, when you OC AMD chips, you increase the hypertransport bus speed unless you have an unlocked multiplier, so you need ram that can take the extra heat, and faster ram can do this better typically. you can get 4gb of DDR2 1066 from corsair for $150 (110 after mail in) that comes with a cooling fan, or you can get 4gb of OCZ DDR2 1066 for $133 (98 after mail in) that comes with a heat pipe heat disperser on the ram

Newegg.com - CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

Newegg.com - OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

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Lamil

Newegg.com - BIOSTAR G31-M7 TE LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

I was looking at that board. I have biostar now and it has always been good to me.

Is that any good?

I need a mATX, looking for a c2d, and possibly 4gb ram. looking to spend about 250ish for all 3 though.

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are you simply looking to buy a board that will run the processor and ram without any overclocking what so ever? if so that board will probably work okay. i honestly would buy a p35 chipset though just because they have better preformance than the older G31 and they dont usually come with that annoying (and horrible) onboard video adapter you just disable in bios anyway. im an enthusiast though (i would buy a C2E nehalem on launch date 09), and i usually dont spend anything less than 150 on a board.

also, with $250 you are REALLY cutting it tight for what you can get, espescially since the LGA775 socket is going to be obsolete this time next year. if i were you i would honestly find a board you like now (a good one, like a 780I FTW from EVGA), and get an e8400 and some good overclocker ram. the mainstream nehalem processors arent expected untill late 09/10 sometime, and there is talk of an LGA 1166 or something socket for the mainstream processors, and an LGA 1366 socket for the high end ones, so if you buy a hot rig now it isnt like you will be blowing a ton of cash on something that will be dirt cheap in 1Q 09.

with all that considered, here is the best i could come up with that isnt far out of your price range. anything else would be a waste of money at this point.

Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors
Newegg.com - Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory
Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

also, i couldnt find any boards i would consider acceptable for a gaming computer in micro ATX. what i chose there is what i would consider the bottom of the market right now for a gaming rig, save the cpu, which is the best bang for the buck you can get right now. all the "budget" cpus out now arent half as good, and they are comming out with a 45nm cpu soon anyway which will replace all of them at the same price point

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Lamil

this is what i picked up.

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Processors

Newegg.com - CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

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Lamil

250 after the 20 mail in with the ram.

btw. i wasn't looking for a super awesome gaming rig. just somethng thats going to play games just fine, and last me a little bit.

right now im still running 3800+x2 939 shit, and its still doing pretty good, just wanted to get out of 939

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Faxon

eh it will get the job done i guess. my only tip to you is that next time you replace your motherboard, get yourself a good mid tower at the very least. you really cant get much in the micro ATX area these days, as it is mainly reserved for business computers and the rigs that you see HP and dell selling that are smaller than a toaster

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