4gb Advice needed for an Asus Commando MB

RaidersGuy · 19 May 2008 at 22:39

Hi I presently run 2 sets of matching sticks of OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 (4gb total) and an Intel Core 2 DUO E6700, I have a few niggle issues running 4 sticks and also would like to change the possessor when prices drop a little, in the mean time I would like to go to2 sticks of 2gb = 4gb so can some kind soul recommend what I should consider, should I stick with the same speed PC2-6400 e.g. Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 or go to say OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-9200C5 1150MHz, I don’t over clock and don’t confess to understand the timings too much.

Cob · 19 May 2008 at 22:51

If you don't overclock then there's no real need to go higher than PC2-6400.

But avoid the Ballistix. It dies a lot more than other memory.

Something like the OCZ would be grand.

RaidersGuy · 19 May 2008 at 23:26

Thanks for the reply, will this work OK with Intel boards because the blurb points towards NVIDIA nForce SLI boards

pingwing · 19 May 2008 at 23:56

Iv got the non sli version of this ram on my P35 board and iv been so impressed with it today (with my uber unscientific overclock). Basically on my system, before i overclocked it, it was flawless. This evening i gave overclokcing a go (didnt notice the ram was set to be steped up from the fsb/cpu so i was at a 5:6 ratio) and it went to 960mhz

Big thumbs up for OCZ ram

RaidersGuy · 20 May 2008 at 11:28

Hi pingwing that’s nice and reassuring thanks for taking the trouble to post, I'm from the old school 2 sticks better then 4 but it may not be true nowadays but it’s hard to shake old habits.