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By: Blog on Charlie’s Server » Blog Archive » Long Live Charlie’s Server

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:07:15 +0000

[...] Charlie’s Server is reborn. The previously mentioned replacement hardware came in a few days back, and the new server is up and running. To be honest, the speed (or lack thereof) of the new Athlon 64 hardware didn’t stun me. All in all, though, I think I made an excellent purchase, particularly in terms of bang for buck. It’s stable as anything, and more than fast enough for my needs. [...]

By: kepe

kepe — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:53:59 +0000

I see that you decided on the AMD64 939 pin board/cpu. Good choice. Glad I was of some assistance in your decision making. With regards to RAM; I compared all the major manufacturers out there, and decided to go with the Ballistic RAM from Crucial. Don’t read much into that. Corsair is very good RAM, but for the money, the Ballistic 1G jobbers were the ticket.

Good luck with the build, and I am sure things will go as planned. Tell j4 hi!!

kepe

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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:07:48 +0000

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By: Hasan

Hasan — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:55:39 +0000

Jon: Thanks for the suggestions. I have already looked into the RAM I'll be buying, and have settled on Corsair's ValueSelect 512Mb chips. I can get a bundle of two of them for around $90 shipped (thanks ZipZoomfly!), and that allows me to take advantage of the dual-channel capabilities of my motherboard.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:31:21 +0000

Hey man. From my experience with buying RAM so far, Kingston and Corsair seem to blow the competition out of the water. I personally got Corsair because, at the time I was buying RAM, it just happened to be a bit cheaper than the Kingston equivilant. It hasn’t proven me wrong, and since it comes with heat-syncs built in it just makes you feel that much safer (although I don’t know if it helps or not :-p.

With that said, check these out. The top one is the cheaper of the two but the second is better quality and is the preferred model for your motherboard (as per claimed by Corsair). Both will work for your motherboard and is the cheapest that I could find in a timespan of less than 2 minutes.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80098-34&affiliate=pgcorsair

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145449&ATT=Memory+System+Memory&CMP=OTC-pricegrabbermerch

These two might be out of your price range (I’m not sure) but I’d recommend them and (I already checked) they will both work for your board. But what the hell do I know anyway! In fact, stop listening to me right now! What am I even doing typing all this much, I should be WORKING right now {slaps self in face}

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:21:57 +0000

I don’t know what any of this means, but I feel sad for you. Hope all this computer something something works out! YAY!