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Old 2008-04-15, 14:14   Link #2
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
Not quite sure what you mean by a "blue-ray hd" .... did you actually mean a blu-ray capable optical drive for CD/DVD/Blu-ray?

My advice at the moment there is to just get a good CD/DVD dual layer optical burner (roughly $50 or less from the right places) and wait a bit. There are very few blu-ray reader/writers and they're several hundred dollars.

As far as RAM, Kingston is always a good choice (though Crucial also gets good marks).
You didn't say what speed your mobo could handle for memory (or what it was). You could spend as much as $273 for 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 PC6400 800MHz Kingston ECC Fully Buffered, or $339 for 4GB DDR2 PC5300 667MHz Crucial ECC Registered, or as little as $99 for 4GB(2x2GB) DDR2 PC5300 667MHz Matched Pair Kingston.

If you have $580 to spare, you could get a 4GB(2x2GB) DDR3 PC8500 1066MHz Matched Pair Crucial though it'd be a waste if your mobo can't drive it that fast.
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