RAM it into me there will ya

Rattlehead_ie

Now that I've your attention

I've built a couple of PCs over the last 5 years some from scrap had lying around others, pretty high performance gaming machines, but the one thing I always never understood was what EXACTLY makes good RAM, what are you looking for, timing, freq (obviously amount) DDR2 vs DDR3 blah blah blah.

Since a 1Gb stick of RAM just failed on me (I had 1Gb x 4) I've been in the market for a new one. MoBo is ddr2 so I'm gona stick with that, but I'm wondering 6400 vs 8800 vs 8500 vs 9200 of 2 x2Gb? Timing of 4-4-4-12 vs 5-4-5-15 and so on.

Any help would be great.
Thanks
Rattlehead

R3al

Stick to known brands and avoid cheap suppliers from Hong Kong and the like should keep most people out of trouble. You(or other viewers) may find the follwoing links useful

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ComputingSolutions/0,,30_288_13265_13295%5E13335,00.html

http://www.overclock.net/faqs/26706-info-ram-timings-dummies.html