On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:16:17 -0600, Scotter wrote:
> I'm about to build a new core duo quad core system.
> The motherboard I've picked, like many, has only 4 slots for RAM.
> I want to put 2 gig sticks in each slot so I can have a total of 8 gig.
> The ONLY 2 gig sticks I can find of at least DDR-800 speed are at NewEgg
by
> two brands I never heard of.
> The brands are "G.SKILL" and "GeIL".
> Can anyone tell me of their experience with these brands?
>
> OR can someone refer me to a site that sells 2 gig sticks of Kingston,
> Crucial, Corsair, Mushkin, or OCZ? Thanks!
>
> Finally, if I am going to do a bit of overclocking, are there some
im****tant
> things to consider with which type of RAM I buy?
>
> Thanks!
I'm using the GSKILL 2G DDR2-800 on an Abit Ab9 Pro. I've been using them
for two months without any problems. I only have two DIMMs in the system
so I can't tell you if there are problems if you put in four 2G DIMMs,
please let us know if you have any issues because I plan to add another 4G
sometime this year.
I'm overclocking my E6700 to 3GHz using the standard Intel coolers, the
system has been stable under heavy loads. I wrote a system stress test
that you might want to use when you bring up your system (assuming you run
Linux).
http://www.polybus.com/sys_basher_web/
It will do a better job of testing your system then memtest86+ because it
runs multithreaded and keeps everything running at 100% utilization.
If you are going to overclock you'll need to buy DIMMs that are faster
than DDR2 533 because the CPU clock and the memory clock come from the
same source. The Abit board offers 533/667 and 800MHz options which
translate into 2, 2.5 and 3X the base clock (for the E6700, I assume the
multipliers are different for lower speed CPUs). To run at 3GHz you set
the base clock to 300MHz which translates into memory speeds of 600MHz,
750MHz and 900MHz. I'm running my memory at 750MHz which is slightly
underclocked for DDR800. Anything more that 533MHz is wasted on a Core2
because of the limitations of the frontside bus (1066 == 2 X 533), however
you need the faster DIMMs so that they can meet timing when you boost the
base clock.
I got everything from NewEgg.
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