Best overclockers RAM for £150

ben_j_davis · 19 Apr 2006 at 11:21

I have a Opteron 144, so far I’ve managed to get the CPU to 2.9, but with a very large divider on my 3200 ram. Therefore i need some really good overclockers RAM, preferably 2GB as most games these days need that much (although no doubt it will lower my chances of getting the highest possible clock) and under £150.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks

Ben

Defcon5 · 19 Apr 2006 at 11:26

You dont get a performance hit from using a divider,

what you do get a performance hit from is increasing the bandwith and raising latencies.

get DDR400 with the lowest latencies you can

ben_j_davis · 19 Apr 2006 at 11:31

Well i was using the biggest divider i could and i noticed that some of the app's in Windows were running a bit sluggish.

So how do i reduce the latency?

Fiddle about with the timings on my RAM?

Minstadave · 19 Apr 2006 at 12:06

ben_j_davis said:
Well i was using the biggest divider i could and i noticed that some of the app's in Windows were running a bit sluggish.

So how do i reduce the latency?

Fiddle about with the timings on my RAM?

Just use the divider that keeps your RAM around 200mhz (check your memory speed with CPU-Z) and you should be fine

rebelco · 19 Apr 2006 at 19:03

Get Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC4000 (DDR500)

Just bought this for

£140 new inc delivery

, best ram you can get to O/C, look around

wam7 · 19 Apr 2006 at 23:11

Excellent memory the only problem is that the failure rates are very high and Crucial are not replacing them with the same sticks, as they no longer make them as far as I am aware.

Better off getting some low latency 3200.

Minstadave · 20 Apr 2006 at 00:42

rebelco said:
Get Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC4000 (DDR500)

Just bought this for £140 new inc delivery , best ram you can get to O/C, look around

Yeah this stuff is unfortunately highly unreliable, mines just died like everyone elses so its going back.

m3csl2004 · 20 Apr 2006 at 01:58

rebelco said:
Get Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC4000 (DDR500)

Just bought this for £140 new inc delivery , best ram you can get to O/C, look around

enjoy it while it lasts (is it the 2gb kit? - theyve stopped making them because there unreliable)

the gskill hz stuffs not bad

pieman109 · 20 Apr 2006 at 03:09

Gskill or OCZ is the best choice these days.