Corsair 4GB a Wise Deal?

[JerryO]

Greetings,

I'm an admitted Newbie at building a PC and I'm in the process of buying parts. So far I have the Sonata III case, Intel E8400, Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P MoBo, EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB DDR3, and a WD Caviar 1 TB hard drive.

I see that NewEgg has this deal on RAM today ($64 - $30 rebate):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16820145215

CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel ... - Retail
DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Timing 5-5-5-15
Cas Latency 5

Any pros/cons (especially cons) to substituting the Corsair sticks for the Crucial Ballistix ones? I can see doing some video editting on this PC, and maybe adding a TV tuner and BluRay down the road. With 2 memory slots left open, I could add more memory later if need be if I got 64-bit Vista Home Premium.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[RickyTick]

You will see very little, if any, difference between them. Both are excellent choices. Since ram is so cheap now, I would be tempted to buy 8gb (4x2gb) of ram and fill all 4 dimm slots. Also remember that those particular ram sticks require 2.1 volts. You will need to make the change in the BIOS when you first boot up. I would also recommend only using 1 stick on first boot, just to avoid the possibility of a single bad stick of ram screwing up your first boot up.

[JerryO]

Thanks. I went ahead and ordered 8GB.