Wow! GREAT information! One last thing, please?
The other poster/answerer, Peter B (thank YOU, too!) mentioned DDR2-667
being the fastest I need and both of you I think mentioned memory timings.
I can think of two reasons to go ahead and get DDR2-800 instead of
DDR2-667
and I want to run them by you.
If I overclock my QX6700 to 3ghz or whatever, will that mean any
overclocking of the RAM if I get either of those above-mentioned RAM
types?
If the answer to that is "yes" then my assumption would be I'm safer with
the DDR2-800 because it's stock speeds are already higher than the 667.
The other reason I'm leaing toward DDR2-800 is for future expandability
like
if later I swap out the QX6700 for some other, faster thing then chances
are
my RAM will be more up to the task and less likely to have to switch it,
too. Is this logical?
Finally, timings. I don't need/want a big class on timings. But I do want
to
know about stock timings on RAM. Basically, which is better if I intend to
overclock a bit.
At NewEgg I'm seeing stuff for DDR2-800 like:
6-6-6-18
5-5-5-15
4-4-4-12
Which is best?
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Scotter
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"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:53hopkF1s5drrU3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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