2 GB Dilemma.

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Hey guys,

I’m in the market fir a nice 2 GB combo – I’ve had a look around and read of few of the threads, but I’m still no better off :(

I’ve got a Opty 146 atm, running at 2.6 GHz with some cheap Crucial holding it up, but now I’ve got some spare cash and I want some quality, and 2 GB’s worth :D

I’m aiming for around the £160 mark. I want to be able to do a little overclocking, so I had either G.Skill or OCZ lined up? But I’m in real need of some sound guidance, so here I am?

Guide me ;)

Cheers,

SW.
 
Either....

G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit - £146.82
G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit - £152.69

... imo of course. :)

I myself am torn between which of those two to buy. Either run the PC4000 jobby in 1:1 with slack timings, or get the PC3200 kit and run the ram on the divider with tight timings. Hmmm! :p

But anywho, I don't think you could go wrong with the above, should work fine. What mobo you got?
 
Firegod said:
Either....

G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit - £146.82
G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit - £152.69

... imo of course. :)

I myself am torn between which of those two to buy. Either run the PC4000 jobby in 1:1 with slack timings, or get the PC3200 kit and run the ram on the divider with tight timings. Hmmm! :p

But anywho, I don't think you could go wrong with the above, should work fine. What mobo you got?
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Whichever one you choose is going to give you great results, I ran my Ballistix at 292 3-3-3-8 1:1 and tbh it wasn't really worth the hassle of all the tweaking. Go with tight timings and a divider, just for simplicity :)
 
Minstadave said:
Whichever one you choose is going to give you great results, I ran my Ballistix at 292 3-3-3-8 1:1 and tbh it wasn't really worth the hassle of all the tweaking. Go with tight timings and a divider, just for simplicity :)
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Ah cheers mate, well there we go Sam... answered both our questions. lol :D Just go for the ZX kit. :cool:
 
sam.wheale said:
Hey guys,

I’m in the market fir a nice 2 GB combo – I’ve had a look around and read of few of the threads, but I’m still no better off :(

I’ve got a Opty 146 atm, running at 2.6 GHz with some cheap Crucial holding it up, but now I’ve got some spare cash and I want some quality, and 2 GB’s worth :D

I’m aiming for around the £160 mark. I want to be able to do a little overclocking, so I had either G.Skill or OCZ lined up? But I’m in real need of some sound guidance, so here I am?

Guide me ;)

Cheers,

SW.
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XMS3500LL twinX £170 in this week only.

they usually get up to ddr510 @ 2.5-3-2-5/6

that is pretty much the best bang for buck on the market imo.
 
The OCZ Platinum 2gb kit in this week only would also be a contender, I'm thinking of getting it myself but I'm not sure if it'll give me enough of a performance boost over my 1gb geil value to warrant the £157.

Mark
 
Mark A said:
The OCZ Platinum 2gb kit in this week only would also be a contender, I'm thinking of getting it myself but I'm not sure if it'll give me enough of a performance boost over my 1gb geil value to warrant the £157.

Mark
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its speeds cant compare with the corsair xms3500ll twinx/pro
which can do the speeds i mentioned above.

and for only £18 more.
 
Firegod said:
Either....

G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB) CAS3 Dual Channel Kit - £146.82
G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit - £152.69

... imo of course. :)
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I think the G.Skill stuff is by far the best value for money in terms of quality/performance?

The ZX seems to have the edge atm ;)

Thanks for the guidence!

SW.
 
sam.wheale said:
I think the G.Skill stuff is by far the best value for money in terms of quality/performance?

The ZX seems to have the edge atm ;)

Thanks for the guidence!

SW.
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Nope, that's the Corsair 3500LL Pro's - for £18 more, you get probably the best 2GB kit out there at the moment (so long as it continue's to clock like it has been doing - and even if it doesn't it's still FAR superior to those G.Skills as it is rated at 219Mhz 2-3-2-6).
 
smids said:
Nope, that's the Corsair 3500LL Pro's - for £18 more, you get probably the best 2GB kit out there at the moment (so long as it continue's to clock like it has been doing - and even if it doesn't it's still FAR superior to those G.Skills as it is rated at 219Mhz 2-3-2-6).
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Thanks smids - I've sort of overlooked Corsair :rolleyes:

I'm just doing some research now. It's looking good so far.

Knowing my luck though, I'd end up with a poor pair. That said they'd probably still clock better than the G.Skill, right :D

SW.
 
sam.wheale said:
Thanks smids - I've sort of overlooked Corsair :rolleyes:

I'm just doing some research now. It's looking good so far.

Knowing my luck though, I'd end up with a poor pair. That said they'd probably still clock better than the G.Skill, right :D

SW.
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well i've never had a poor pair of corsair modules.

XMS3500LL TwinX ***!!! remember pro's are £205 with black led heatspreaders, twinX version is same memory....just with silver coloured heatspreaders for £170.

:)
 
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AceCard said:
well i've never had a poor pair of corsair modules.

XMS3500LL TwinX ***!!! remember pro's are £205 with black led heatspreaders, twinX version is same memory....just with silver coloured heatspreaders for £170).

:)
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i have a pair of gskill hz 2gb sets.... i made a mistake and instead of running them witha divider i booted up on an a8r-mvp synchronously @ 298 mhz... quite surpised when it ran 3d mark06 and all si soft memorybenches and the suchlike...wouldn't pass prime but could play day of defeat and counter strike source...

they wouldnt run at that speed with the old bios for this board but will with the 0404.


cheers
 
I went through all this last week sam, i eventually went with the ZX kit. Running a 2GB kit anything above 200mhz+ with tight timings is the way to go I found out, so i went zx. (check out sig for my clocks) Having slacker timings with afew extra mhz isnt really worth it as I heard with AMD cpu's its all about tight timings and not mhz.
 
Still, the 3500LL Pro is superior and for only £18 well worth it over the ZX. With the 3500LL at that price, I'd be tempted to ditch my OCZ PC4000EB Plats for that - but my laptop is receiving the upgrade treatment at the moment so I'm holding off.
 
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