RAM upgrade for my PC

[Tyranicus]

Im in the process of buying RAM for my PC. I haven't bought any RAM for the last 4 years since I built this machine. I got two products in mind from newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148249

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166

The only concern I have is that are the little slots in the RAM chips dierectly in the center otherwise they wont fit into my ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard. Does anyone know what these chips look like if you bought them?

 

[dsmops2003]

That mobo uses DDR2 1200.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231283

 

[Player Two]

For the good of yourself, and your future self, get something with DDR3. DDR2 really is on the way out and you'll end up having to buy an even newer PC far sooner than expected.

 

[Virgil]

The only concern I have is that are the little slots in the RAM chips dierectly in the center otherwise they wont fit into my ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard. Does anyone know what these chips look like if you bought them?

They will fit, and they should work fine.

The P5Q Pro specs does say it supports DDR2-1200 though, and both of those are DDR2 1066 - NewEgg is selling a DDR2-1200 set here [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231283]. It would only make a minor difference either way, at best.

 

[dsmops2003]

Maybe look into a new motherboard as well. Here is one that will user DDR3 memory but retains the older 775 chipset so you dont need to upgrade your processor if you're tight on cash.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130252

In all honesty if you were going to go the route of getting a new motherboard you might as well just build an all new rig. Get a LGA 1366 motherboard that uses the x58 logic chipset. And go quad core with at least 6 memory slots.

 

[bam13302]

For the good of yourself, and your future self, get something with DDR3. DDR2 really is on the way out and you'll end up having to buy an even newer PC far sooner than expected.

for gaming, having 4 gb of DDR1 ram is fine, my father still has a functioning gaming machine that has and amd athlon x2 proc, and ddr1 ram, and a decent GPU and can run any game at max without issue, as long as u have enough, ram will rarely hinder a 'gaming machine' on that note, digital design software, compiling, editing, and other applications/tools may need more ram (and processing power)
OT: should work, would like to know what u currently have in it though

 

[ToxicPiranah]

http://www.crucial.com will help you get exactly what you need to fit

 

[Tyranicus]

For the
OT: should work, would like to know what u currently have in it though

I got 4 year old cosair RAM in my mobo. Thanks for the advice everybody!

 

[Tyranicus]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166

Im gonna go with these ones here. I hope they fit.