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I have been building my beast of a PC for about a month or two now and I only need 2 more major components: The case, and RAM. I already know which case I want. But I cannot decide on RAM.
I was originally thinking of 1066 RAM (yes my mobo supports it), but one of the geeks at the store whom I talk to said that:
a) XP cannot support 1066RAM fully
b) If you don't tune your PSU correctly, it would fry your RAM, PSU, and mobo.
Scared by this, I decided to switch to the 800 RAM.
However, one of my other friends told me that (a) and (b) are ****. He told me:
"I don't know where you got this info from, but its wrong.
You can use 1066 in XP just fine, and yes you do utilize the extra speed from it. Since when did an operating system care about system speed? Volume can be a different issue as some operating systems cannot always address the full volume of different hardware (eg. large hard drives, large amounts of RAM).
I would strongly recommend that you get the fastest RAM your motherboard will support, or consider going a step higher if you are planning on overclocking. "
What should I do!?
I have been building my beast of a PC for about a month or two now and I only need 2 more major components: The case, and RAM. I already know which case I want. But I cannot decide on RAM.
I was originally thinking of 1066 RAM (yes my mobo supports it), but one of the geeks at the store whom I talk to said that:
a) XP cannot support 1066RAM fully
b) If you don't tune your PSU correctly, it would fry your RAM, PSU, and mobo.
Scared by this, I decided to switch to the 800 RAM.
However, one of my other friends told me that (a) and (b) are ****. He told me:
"I don't know where you got this info from, but its wrong.
You can use 1066 in XP just fine, and yes you do utilize the extra speed from it. Since when did an operating system care about system speed? Volume can be a different issue as some operating systems cannot always address the full volume of different hardware (eg. large hard drives, large amounts of RAM).
I would strongly recommend that you get the fastest RAM your motherboard will support, or consider going a step higher if you are planning on overclocking. "
What should I do!?