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Old November 11, 2010, 10:17 AM
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I design Aircraft cabinets (galleys, lavatories, bulkhead) on the side. I have seen up to 400 parts in a single product, and having so much ram was a blessing.
I can imagine. I am an injection mould designer, and as an engineer, and former go kart racer, I have been working on designing a full formula ford race car from scratch, and I'm finding my current system to be painfully slow, especially with analysis.

As long as we are on the topic of RAM, can anyone suggest what clock speed/brand/etc. for the Rampage II extreme motherboard?

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Old November 12, 2010, 06:51 AM
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Anyone have any suggestions for the best RAM for this board?
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Anyone have any suggestions for the best RAM for this board?

I would think at least with my experience on ASUS boards that G.SKill Ram would be best. You can pick it up fairly cheap as well.

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Thanks ST. I was leaning towards G-Skill anyway. Any suggestions on clock speed? Asus documentation says that board will handle 1066 and 1333, as well as 1600 and 1800 if overclocked. I'm new to overclocking and not really sure what direction to go.

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Gskill, Mushkin, 1600s will do fine.
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Thanks for all the help guys! I have managed to reduce my price on this build by about $350 with your advice!

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Looks good so far. I would give a +1 for the Mushkins. Only thing I would suggest beyond the ram is getting a modular psu when you do upgrade.
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the fastest ssd out there right now is the crucial c300, they're not that expensive either.
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Thanks for the tip, I will look into that SSD. Has anyone tried the add on cards that provide Sata 3 and USB 3? My board doesn't support either.

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Old November 12, 2010, 09:20 PM
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Thanks for the tip, I will look into that SSD. Has anyone tried the add on cards that provide Sata 3 and USB 3? My board doesn't support either.

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I dont think that its worth it, not many devices are out there that support either. The C300 can use SATA 3 but it still performs extremely well with SATA 2. I dont think that you can boot off of a drive thats connected through a PCI slot
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