by congo » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:36 am
Whether or not the speed difference will be significant depends on your motherboard and CPU. It has the potential to make a real difference depending on how your hardware is configured.
In any case, the higher specification should be bought because it could be of use when you decide to upgrade further.
PC3200, try and get low latency Ram, and not the cheap and nasty stuff.

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24&