More Mushkin?

aaf

Here's the scenario. I'm building a PC for a Photographer/Photoshop enthusiast. I'm gonna put 2GB ram in. A few months ago, I got 2 x 512mb Mushkin TCCD ram that I intended on using for this job. Now, I can't find the same ram anywhere so I was wondering what are my options. Should I just get another Mushkin 1GB kit or any other quality brand like OCZ? I'm also trying to decide on a motherboard for her. Needs to have 4 x mem slots for obvious reasons :rolleyes: Gonna go SATAII route aswell. Had a look at komplett and it's between:

MSI K8N SLI Platinum
Abit KN8-SLI,nForce4 SLI
Gigabyte GA-K8NP-SLI ,nForce4
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=312220&cks=PRL

Any opinions?

Alkers

I'd go for the 2nd motherboard there but only because the northbridge is passively cooled. Those damn NB fans can be really loud. That with a quiet graphics card shouldn't be loud enough to annoy you no matter what you are doing.

K.O.Kiki

Does it even need that kind of expensive RAM?
Maybe you could sell/ keep it for a gaming machine, and get some OEM/ Value RAM -- cheaper, and you can then prob buy 2-3 GB for the same price. And also, if she's not going to be using 2 GPU's, why buy a mobo that has that? Get a cheaper nForce4 non-SLI instead. Though you'd wanna check tech specs for SATAII-compatability.

Col_Loki

Having 2-3gb of Ram is only going to help your computers performance if you are doin memory intensive things which needs alot of it. If you wont use over 1gb , then the extra is a waste.