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Joined: Apr 2010
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Looking for 8gb of decent RAM for gaming please
Preferebly one stick but i can go for 2 x 4gb's
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Hi colt, I am no expert but I would say I know more than most and less than many.... In this day and age ram is excellent but it is all very similar. The difference between a 60 quid kit of standard ram and a 120 quid kit is how much it will over lock and how low the timings are. Get the right ram for your board, 1333/1600'etc and get a mid range kit. The crucial, corsair or rip jaw are all good. Get the lowest timing you can. Something like this is fine, don't spend a fortune unless you have a top end motherboard. £200 plus. With a cl speed of 9 this looks to be a bargain! http://www.ebuyer.com/412034-8gb-ddr3-1600mhz-hyperx-xmp-beast-series-khx16c9t3k2-8x
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Thanks for the reply, I Will have a look. I have seen your posts around here with advice and selling the odd component etc. So I thought you would be the one to reply  and i did try and do a Google search and triedto find your place to give you a call to see if you would have anything in stock, but had no luck. I'm just looking to give the computer a little boost with a few processes that I have running. I was looking at some corsair vengeance but I still need to check how many slots my comp has free and I'm not sure the max RAM that my motherboard can take either as I only have 8gb of nothing special atm. Thanks again!
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Hi,
I don't have a shop mate. I just do IT as a hobby and I work in the sector also for a largish company in town. I can almost guarantee you will notice no difference upgrading from nothing special to something special!
If you had a system with a 300 CPU 200 motherboard and 30 quid ram you would notice the difference. Best upgrade you can make to a standard pc is a solid state drive.
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Ahh my bad i thought you had a shop!
I was going to go for 16gb of RAM if my motherboard supported it, but I may invest in an SSD if i would notice more of a difference than with the extra ram.
Would the OS need to be on the SSD to see the benefit?
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Better with OS on SSD & have a secondary hard drive for all your other stuff. I thought that they always recommend you use a pair of memory sticks ie 2 x 4g rather than one 8g.
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