Advice to choose hardware.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Blujay, May 8, 2014.

  1. Blujay

    Blujay Specialist

    A friend of mine asked me to help him choose RAM (DDR2) and a pcie video card for a very old PC. He insists on getting the cheapest RAM and video card.

    My advice to him was to go with corsair or better or crucial for the cheapest for RAM, and by better I mean G.Skill or OCZ ... so basically I'm saying go with corsair... for any kind of long term reliability.

    For the video card, the cheapest is
    EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 1 GB DDR3

    I suggest he go with
    EVGA GeForce GT 610 1024MB GDDR3

    which is a little more but a whole lot better.

    I welcome your input.
    Especially on the RAM issue.:)
     
    Blujay, May 8, 2014
    #1
  2. Just Playin

    Just Playin MajorGeek

    Tell him to part with the extra $10. Cheapest is not always the best value.

    I've always had luck with G.Skill.
     
    Just Playin, May 8, 2014
    #2

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