I'm upgrading the 2x2GB DDR3 sticks in the desktop PC to 2x4GB. Motherboard goes up to 1600MHz; current CPU (Athlon II X3 445) is 1333MHz but there's a chance I might upgrade to a 1600MHz CPU in the future (X4?).
Would you pay £2 extra for Crucial Ballistix Sport CL10 1600MHz (ebuyer £30) rather than Kingston CL9 1333MHz (ebuyer £28) or Crucial CL9 (7dayshop £27)? More to the point, am I right in thinking it's ok to use the 1600MHz chips running at 1333MHz?
Crucial CL10: tinyurl.com/7ulgcgu
Kingston CL9: tinyurl.com/87q5aft
Crucial CL9: tinyurl.com/7aznv65
EDIT: have to pay £1.51 for delivery from ebuyer, free from 7dayshop
EDIT2: and it's Windows 7
Last edited by: Focus on Sun 8 Jan 12 at 22:44
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...although I've just realised it's currently running 32 bit!
Got the full retail disc though with both versions and it's not long since I did a re-install (due to problems with updates), so might switch to 64 bit.
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>> I'm upgrading the 2x2GB DDR3 sticks in the desktop PC to 2x4GB. Motherboard goes up
>> to 1600MHz; current CPU (Athlon II X3 445) is 1333MHz but there's a chance I
>> might upgrade to a 1600MHz CPU in the future (X4?).
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>> Would you pay £2 extra for Crucial Ballistix Sport CL10 1600MHz (ebuyer £30) rather than
>> Kingston CL9 1333MHz (ebuyer £28) or Crucial CL9 (7dayshop £27)?
No, because I would not be looking at the Athlon upgrade, its a technological dead end, plus a complete waste of time and money, you would notice absolutely nothing from a 2.7% increase in CPU clock cycles. So save your money now and save your money later as well.
More to the point, am
>> I right in thinking it's ok to use the 1600MHz chips running at 1333MHz?
yes you can, the system will clock the memory as required.
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Focus, if you don't upgrade to a 64bit of Windows that extra memory will be unused.
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>> Focus, if you don't upgrade to a 64bit of Windows that extra memory will be
>> unused.
...hence my second post.
Not going to bother; PC is now in son's room and he doesn't want the hassle of another re-installation when it's working fine as it is. Spoilsport :)
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You've got to be certain all the hardware in the PC will run 64bit Windows and by the way the lower the Cas Latency (CL) number the better.
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1333MHz or 1600MHz RAM - Focusless
