Hey everyone, this is quite a noob question. But how do you choose what RAM to buy? What's compatible and what's not? What are RAM's PC xxxx.
Thanks!
What motherboard do you have?
what CPU?
How much RAM do you have a the moment ?
what do you use your computer for?
I try to steer clear of 'unbranded' memory and instead opt for a well known brand preferably with heat spreaders. Personally I get along great with Corsair Memory but some people prefer other brands.
Also, in my experience people don't need more than 8GB for the most part.
Hi sir!
What I wanted to know is how to choose a RAM in a general way.
You have to make sure you buy ram that is compatible with your motherboard.
you should buy quality ram, most of the well known brands are good like corsair, mushkin, g.skill and crucial for example. Also read the reviews, if people that have already bought it say it's bad it probably is.
And if you don't already know this, high Mhz is faster than low Mhz and a low cas latency is faster than a high cas latency.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think 4 to 8 GB of memory with a frequency of 1333 Mhz to 1600 Mhz should be sufficient for most users.
And to answer your last question, the PCXXXX stands for the speed of the ram.
For example PC2100 ram has a transfer rate of 2100 MB/s
Hope this helps you
It did help me understad, thank you Jinior!
Down with fanboys!
Now, it used to be that lower timings were better on DDR2 (I mean more sensible to overclocking aka higher clock speeds due to so low latency). You can tighten the timings. Use memtest86+ or any good memory tester for errors.
Higher memory speeds are now better than tighter timings, when kept at the decency limit (you won't see much of a difference between 1600 and 1866, but if the timings are lower that's a whole different world of performance, also depends on application). For AMD APUs use high frequency memory, and decent timings like around CAS 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDRAM_latency