Originally by: Y Berion

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I guess HyperX could be overclocked better

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Originally by: Anubis Assassin

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Stupid question though. You said you had 1gb and you are upgrading to 2gb. Did you just order one stick of 1gb or what?

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Originally by: Elysarian

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tbh, the main bottleneck in that system of yours isn't the ram or the gfx...

It's the Processor.

I'd upgrade that before I even thought of buying performance RAM (about ú60 in the UK for an Athlon X2 6000+ that'll run in your AM2 board).

If you do see any performance gains on upgrading to 2GB then it'll only be because Windows doesn't have to page to disk as much - not because of the lower latency of the RAM.

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Originally by: Elysarian

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tbh, the main bottleneck in that system of yours isn't the ram or the gfx...

It's the Processor.

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Originally by: Agent Unknown

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"Gaming memory"?

They are both the exact same speed...higher voltage will just push the temps up and force you to use more cooling anyway. If you really want a boost, go DDR3 if your mobo can handle it. If not, find another upgrade path.

I suppose there can be "features" in the memory that makes it better than your run-of-a-mill memory, but to each his own I suppose...

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Originally by: Qwyp

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Originally by: Agent Unknown

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"Gaming memory"?

They are both the exact same speed...higher voltage will just push the temps up and force you to use more cooling anyway. If you really want a boost, go DDR3 if your mobo can handle it. If not, find another upgrade path.

I suppose there can be "features" in the memory that makes it better than your run-of-a-mill memory, but to each his own I suppose...

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It is double the performance of the normal ram I have. Checking the stats my normal memory is like 1.8 volts 10 cas latency.

hyperx is 2.0 volts so I do not see .2 volts causing that much more heat, but the timing on this memory is 4-4-4-12, 4 cas compared to normal ddr2 or ddr3 that runs from 8 to 12 cas.

so this memory is super fast for what it is. which is main reason I went ahead and ordered it. the memory does come with heat spreaders and the reviews I've read is it don't heat up at all for running at the required 2.0 volts for this "gaming memory or high performance" memory.

I did look over at G.skill's gaming/high performance and they have some really low CAS memory as well as OCZ but I've always been a kingston fanboi and a nvidia fanboi so going with the hyperx series.

for those interested here is kingston's site on hyperx low cas memory and info on different memory types.

http://www.kingston.com/hyperx/default.asp

compared to normal kingston, the hyperx speeds are pretty slick.

Regardless the 2 gigs upgrade should help quite a bit. But yes there is "gaming memory" for those not in the know :)
compared to my current crappy 1 gig of cas 10 memory this 2 gigs of cas 4 should really fly.

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Originally by: Reven Cordelle

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I haven't tried Kingston Memory. I used to use it when building a lot of systems and the failure rate was disturbing.

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Originally by: Spaztick

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You are not outnumbered, you are in a target-rich environment.

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Originally by: Jhango Fett

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Performance is going to have more to do with your graphics card than system memory, but more system memory is always a good thing.

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Originally by: Bellum Eternus

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The amount of incorrect information and assumptions in this thread is insane.

If you're running Vista, run 4gb minimum. The difference of +0.2v can double the running temperature of your ram quite quickly. Not that that would be a problem for high performance ram, particularly with heat spreaders and good airflow.

If you buy two 1GB sticks of ram as a set, and then buy *another* two 1GB sticks as a matched set, you're probably going to have all sorts of problems getting your computer booted without loosening up your ram timings quite a bit.

The best way to do it is to get a two stick 4GB set, and make sure it requires as little overvolting as possible.

You're welcome.

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• 
  Now the CPU FSB: memory bus 1:1 *clock* ratio is only 1:1 for Intel CPUs and RAM running in dual-channel mode. Since on Intel systems all data to/from RAM goes through the FSB, you want the data throughput of the FSB to match the data throughput of the memory bus, so neither is a bottleneck.
  
  Data throughput of FSB = FSB clock rate x 4 (that's why it's called "quad-pumped" ).
  
  Data throughput of memory bus in dual-channel mode = individual DIMM throughput x 2 (two channels in parallel doubles the throughput).
  
  Individual DIMM throughput = memory bus clock rate x 2 ("DDR" means double data rate).
  
  Thus, to match data throughput of FSB and data throughput of memory bus, we get:
  FSB clock rate x 4 = (individual DIMM throughput) x 2; expanding further, we get:
  FSB clock rate x 4 = (memory bus clock rate x 2) x 2
  
  This works out to:
  FSB clock rate x 4 = memory bus clock rate x 4, or
  
  FSB clock rate = memory bus clock rate, which is the famed 1:1 ratio!
  
  Quick example:
  For 1333MHz FSB throughput, FSB *clock* is 1333MHz/4 = 333MHz. Thus, for the 1:1 ratio in this case here, we want the memory bus clock to be 333MHz, which is the same as running the DIMM modules at 333MHz x 2 = DDR2-667 speed.