Advice on improving my rig....?

[Maverick2002]

Hi, My current spec is this:

CMaster Pretorian 730 Black

ASUS P5N32 SLI PREMIUM WIFI

600W ENERMAX EG701AXVE 2PCIE

Intel E6600 Core2Duo 2.40GHz @ 2.76

250G SEAGATE SATA2 ST3250620AS

320G SEAGATE SATA 2

BFG 8800 GTS

Windows Vista Ultimate

No Brand 2gb Ram

My question is, how is this rig looking? And how badly is the RAM likely to be affecting it?

If i buy an upgrade for it, will i see a big improvement? and if yes, any suggestions, in the £150 - £250 mark?

I dont really understand much lol

[markkleb]

Well if benchmarks/OCing matter YES.

In everyday use probably no. It matters if you are going to OC or not. If you are better memory is a +.

My new 2 favorite memories for OCing are

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820150054

and

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820220174

[deathwish]

personally i wouldn't worry as long as it dose what you want it to,

without being slowl

[FarFarAway]

Well the spec looks good. Decent RAM is good if you want to overclock. And in fact if you have C2D then you should

There's a fair bit of mass cheapo RAM around atm

[llwyd]

I suggest Mushkin but give all the reviews in our memory section a scan and see if there is anything there that's for you.



Here

[FarFarAway]

I suggest looking here (I know OcUK suck but goddamn that's cheap) and getting the OCZ 2GB (2 x 1G PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2

[Mr. Smith]

Nice looking specs tbh.

That ram kemp suggests is a steal, get that and upgrade your cooling to a scythe/thermalright (~£30) and OC your e6600 to 3.3ghz or more!

That will give you a nice boost

[Maverick2002]

Thanks for all the replies, very useful as always!

Unfortunately i've just got back from spain and its gone from "this week only"....not a big deal, but would it be worth getting this instead: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=8&subcat=817 or sticking with the cheaper stuff?

As you may have guessed my knowledge of RAM is very limited, not even sure what figures i should be looking at

And overclocking......i don't even know how to clock ram

[Mr. Smith]

Nice looking sticks there (the ocz pc8500) - if you got the money, go for it. However, check the latest review of some bargain OCZ sticks - the same performance for almost £70 less (once you bang on the postage)...

As for OC'ing ram - when you oc the cpu the frequency of the ram raises in at a set ratio (1:1, 4:5 etc)... Check here and here oh, and here for the how to's

[Maverick2002]

Thanks again smith.

a couple of probably stupid questions (but i'll ask anyway) :

would 2 sticks of more expensive ram be better than 4 of the cheaper ones originally suggested by kemp?

and as a side note, if i got another 8800 GTS, would i be wasting my money due to the bottleneck of the CPU?