Check spec please and suggestions

Hank_Marvin

Hank_Marvin

Hank_Marvin

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Hello, i posted about a spec about a month ago and now pretty much ready to buy in the next few days. take a look and see what you think, plenty of suggestions please.

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thanks
 
That Memory is an overkill, you do not need 8500 rated RAM. Either get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-086-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

Or if your looking for high memory clocks go for some of this stuff and just get two packs of it.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-088-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144

I would also be inclinded to change the motherboard to something like the Abit IP35 Pro, fantastic board. You dont need to spend that amount of money on a motherboard when something cheaper will do the exact same job maybe better.
 
The Ram is almost certainly overkill when any decent PC6400 would do easily for a pretty hefty overclock (up to 3.6ghz without running outside specification of the Ram) but other than that it looks fine.
 
Hank_Marvin said:
so can those two ram choices you suggested get up to 1066mhz?

the prices are nicer
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The OCZ Memory wont but it will still allow an overclock of 3.6GHz on your Quad Core.

The Crucial Memory however will, overclocks like a dream.

How ever you dont really need your memory running at 1066MHZ, you probally wouldn't be able to tell the difference betwen 1066MHZ and 800MHZ anyway.
 
Hank_Marvin said:
so can those two ram choices you suggested get up to 1066mhz?

the prices are nicer
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Ah, are you assuming that you need the Ram speed to match the FSB speed of 1066mhz? If so you needn't worry, it doesn't need to be 1:1 because the FSB of Core2Duo CPUs is quad-pumped so the Ram only needs to be capable of 1066mhz/4 i.e. 266.5mhz (PC4200 speeds) to run at stock. To actually do some overclocking I'd obviously suggest something with more headroom, PC6400 is a good compromise between price and performance normally. :)
 
any one know which of the above links to different ram would be best with the Abit IP35 Pro? i'd like to do some overclocking as every1 seems to be doing it, so which would be good for that.

thanks again
 
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