Well, I made the huge mistake of getting cheap RAM, and now I can't OC worth ****. Well the next chance I get I'm buying some good RAM, real good. I looked at this stuff, but the reviews say it's power hungry and unstable up high. Well fortunately I'm not worried about running it at high speed, so that fixes both of those problems. I want the new RAM to allow me to OC a minumum of 400 MHz (from 2.2 GHz to 2.6 GHz). That is an absolute minimum. I'm only going to run the sticks at DDR 400, so that will help. If anyone knows of some RAM that will really let you release the FSB then please tell me. Oh and one more thing, if you have never overclocked a computer, or the one you have is/was not OCed more than 200 MHz, please dont make any suggestions unless you heard it from somehwere viable (not a friend). P.S. Hey Ex and zRock, here is an opportunity to get some thank's, if you play your cards right :good:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820221025 I think you should get this stuff. Timing 2-2-2-5 if your motherboard can go up to 3.1volt
I hadn't heard anything good or bad about Gigaram so I kinda stayed away from it. I looked at reviews and it seems like the best OCing yields come from G. Skill. I might go for that if I can find the money.
what kind of mobo do you have, I don't want to match up some non compatible memory oh yeah, the wars over, i gave up catching up to exa, since im 15 behind and everytime i get one he gets 3 haha, i waved the white flag, but still, im happy with the respectful number I got
These should all allow you to overclock well over 2.6Ghz and ran stable at low latencies, trusted brands aswell. In descending order of price/performance more or less. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220006 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227211 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231013 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146389
im not sure still if it matches your mobo, but I agree with ex on this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227211 its pretty cheap i guess for what its worth, and allows more into depth tweaking without going unstable for example too, read the second comment, but does your mobo go up that high on voltages? my thread on memory tweaking might help : )
Alright so I had heard good things about OCZ, and I was looking at that set of G. Skill RAM along with some TCCD from them. If I can find a way to lay out the extra $$$ do you think it would be worth it?
I think it would be, but thats up to you man, just check with the memory's webpage if its fully compatible
Yea, I will once it comes back online. I think it's down. Would somebody check if they can load abit-usa.com
Yeah plus OCz has those cool gold heatspreaders that make a big difference as when you tweak and oc they get mightly hot, the G-skill might burn out if you don't shield them.
I say get ddr 433. Timings are still tight and you won't be overclocking it much if you try and overclock your CPU by FSB. May even wanna get ddr 466. Overclocking your ram is kinda stupid if you can just avoid it.
Yea I have to overclock by FSB, 11 is as high as my board will go. But when I OC the FSB I will underclock the RAM. That's why I might buy some DDR 500. I'm not worried at all about timings, especially with G. Skill. If you read the reviews on Newegg people overclock the timings, run the RAM at it's highest speed, and OC their FSB like 30-40 Mhz. So if I underclock the RAM I figure my only limitaion will be heat.
Hahaha. Well I actually do paln on repalcing my no-name red LED fans with some Antec red LED fans before long. Need a floppy drive first, so I can back-up. Hopefully I can remember to get by Circuit City before it closes.... That only leaves me like a 5-6 hour window.
