Need help selecting RAM..

[LA_MERC_YellowDog]

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Ok heres what I got,

AMD Athlon 2800+
K7n2 Delta MSI 400 MHZ FSB. Mother Board.

I can run up to 3 Gb of ram, I currently have 2 x 512 sticks of SDRAM. I want to upgrade with 2 gigs of DDR SDRAM, I have read some reviews on new egg about CORSAIR, but it dont sound to promissing.

XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575)

This is some exspensive ram in my book, but the reviews that Ive read lead me to belive
with their products its a crap shoot as to if your going to get a bad stick..

IMO.. for 200 - 300 dollars I should not have to deal with that.

So what do you guys think... Is KINGSTON better than CORSAIR...

Help a brother out... Im trying to get BF2 to smooth out, and I dont need to build a new machine at this time.

On a side note, dose anyone have 2 gigs DDR sdram 3200 that they are no longer in need of?

Maybe we can work out a deal second hand??

[LA_MERC_Drifter]

Parker I have that kit in my comp and it has run fine for me. Ihave had bad sticks from both places, so I would say it's a crap shoot either way. I do know that they will replace the whole kit if one of them is bad. In the end I would say get the best one for the money and hope your luck holds.

[LA_MERC_T4rg3T]

I would go with Kingston if you don't want to pay for Corsair

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134136

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134039

Both Corsair and Kingston are recommended for use with MSI

[LA_MERC_YellowDog]

You know Toby, I was looking at those 2 rams as well. The only diffrence is the CAS Latency.

the first one is 2.5 the second one is 2.0, from what I understand the 2.o is suppose to be a little bit faster, ad for 10 bucks.. seems like a good deal.. the kingston ram has a lot of good reviews as well. Seem the higher performing ram does reqire adjustiing your clock timing for the ram. Guess I better make sure I can do that in my Bios if I go with that ram.

[LA_MERC_T4rg3T]

Yellow, you wouldn't notice the difference between cas 2.5 and cas 2.0 pick the ram you feel better with.

[LA_MERC_WBHighwind]

Ive heard nothing but awesome things about Patriot and they seem to be fairly competatively priced as well. Apparently, they hand test every stick before they send em out.

[LA_MERC_Andyconda]

I'm a big fan of Corsair. Toby's right, it's alittle more priceier than Kingston but I think its more stable. Money well spent in my book as RAM can be ornary at times.

[LA_MERC_YellowDog]

Well, unless I find somthing else out there I think this KIngston RAM..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134136

for $ 229 is what I will go with, I like to read the reviews on NewEgg because I think this really helps to point out any flaws with the Product...

All lot of the Reviews on the Corsair RAM, almost all of them had some kind of problem, " Bad RAM, Bad service and so on"

I did not see that on the Kingston Ram, I know this one only has 1 review.. Witch I dont like, but they have a second set that I think is almost the same ram,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820134039

its just O/C'ed d a little.. The Reviews on it were all postive with the one cmplaint that some people had to manulay changed there clock settings in the BIOS.

So I figure, go with the Ram that desigened around more convetional settings, " Less Problems" I hope. :)