A8N-SLI with Crucial RAM

[Rob Nicholson]

I usually buy Crucial RAM from www.dabs.com - anyone used this successfully
with the A8N-SLI motherboard?

Thanks, Rob.

 

[Pete M Williams]

I usually buy Crucial RAM from www.dabs.com - anyone used this successfully
with the A8N-SLI motherboard?

See my post before:
"I am using Corsair (TWINX1024-3200XLPRO) "

Also have a look at www.ebuyer.com because they seem to be a bit cheaper
than Dabs on some sticks. It just depends what type of RAM you are after.
Be aware though that Ebuyers customer service and After Sales are crap from
what I have read but luckily I have never needed them to date.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

You will probably be happier with Corsair RAM...it's the best that money can
buy, and the company is the most reputable computer peripheral company I
have ever dealt with.

Bobby

 

[Ben Pope]

I usually buy Crucial RAM from www.dabs.com - anyone used this
successfully with the A8N-SLI motherboard?

Why would you buy Crucial RAM from Dabs? Buy it from Crucial, they deliver
free and usually next day. They are a joy to deal with.

I usually buy Corsair though, but it depends entirely on what you want.

Ben

 

[Jon Radbourne]

I've put a gig of Crucial's Ballistix 3200 RAM on my A8N - SLI board and its
a rock solid performer. Arrived the next day too. Here's the link
http://www.crucial.com/uk/ballistix...CA5CA7304&WSMD=A8N-SLI+Deluxe&WSPN=BL6464Z402

HTH Jon

 

[Rob Nicholson]

I've put a gig of Crucial's Ballistix 3200 RAM on my A8N - SLI board and

its a rock solid performer. Arrived the next day too. Here's the link
http://www.crucial.com/uk/ballistix...CA5CA7304&WSMD=A8N-SLI+Deluxe&WSPN=BL6464Z402

Thanks all - which check out prices on Corsair as well as the above.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

I've put a gig of Crucial's Ballistix 3200 RAM on my A8N - SLI board and

its a rock solid performer. Arrived the next day too. Here's the link

What's so special about the Ballistix memory? When I go through the Crucial
memory picker, the most popular choice is:

http://tinyurl.com/69tsd

It's considerable cheaper and I'm not going to be overclocking this system.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

It's considerable cheaper and I'm not going to be overclocking this

system.

And neither to the flashing LEDs appeal - it'll be inside a case!

Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

You will probably be happier with Corsair RAM...it's the best that money

can buy, and the company is the most reputable computer peripheral company
I have ever dealt with.

Hmm, their web site appears to be down - not a good advert

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Hmm, their web site appears to be down - not a good advert

And the Kingston UK website gives SQL errors LOL

 

[Ben Pope]

Hmm, their web site appears to be down - not a good advert

Odd, it was fine when I made my post and is ok now.

Ben

 

[Ben Pope]

What's so special about the Ballistix memory? When I go through the
Crucial memory picker, the most popular choice is:

http://tinyurl.com/69tsd

It's considerable cheaper and I'm not going to be overclocking this
system.

It's CL2, instead of CL3 for the above part.

It makes a little difference in speed.

I guess it depends on whether you want to make the most of memory bandwidth
limited tasks.

Ben

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Odd, it was fine when I made my post and is ok now.

http://www.corsairmicro.com/ ??

I'm getting cannot find server.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Rob Nicholson]

I guess it depends on whether you want to make the most of memory

bandwidth limited tasks.

All I want to do is play this copy of Doom 3 that I was bought for Christmas

 

[Ben Pope]

All I want to do is play this copy of Doom 3 that I was bought for
Christmas

You may find that CL2 helps a little, but only you can see which side of the
cost/performance trade-off you want to be. Also, I'd like to say that 1GB
of CL3 RAM would be much better than 512MB of CL2. 1GB of CL2 is nice
though.

These things (CL2 instead of 3) are more about squeezing the last few
percent.

Ben

 

[Ben Pope]

http://www.corsairmicro.com/ ??

I'm getting cannot find server.

My bad, I was talking about Crucial.

Yes, corsairmicro seems to be down, it's odd though:
www.corsairmicro.com. 38400 CNAME corsairmicro.com.


If you go to http://corsairmicro.com you get a 403 - Forbidden.

Going to www I get a DNS error (I guess some nameservers have the CNAME and
others not). Some of their records are 48 hours, so it could be a couple of
days before it's sorted, if it is a DNS problem.

Ben

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Bad script on the front page... try this...

http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html

Bobby

 

[Ben Pope]

Bad script on the front page... try this...

http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/xms.html

My nameserver currently has no idea who www is.

Ben

 

[Rob Nicholson]

Bad script on the front page... try this...

Ta!

 

[Rob Nicholson]

These things (CL2 instead of 3) are more about squeezing the last few

percent.

I don't think I'm that demanding I'll go for the not-so-fast variety but
will be getting 2 x 512 so I can use that dual bank feature, thingy...