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The one thing Ive never been able to get my head around is memory. CAS Latency and all that stuff is a mystery to me.

Anyhow, I am building a new PC and would like at some point to overclock it a bit. But after reading around it seems the memory is fairly crucial (!) to doing that.

Please can someone in the know tell me whether I really need £200 RAM to do the job or can I get something a bit cheaper ?

Thanks

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Gigabyte GA 965P-DS4 iP965
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
500W Enermax Liberty Modular Series - ELT500AWT
512MB XFX 7950GT XT, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1460MHz, GPU 570MHz, 24 Pipes, 2xDual Link DVI-I/HDTV
Samsung SH-182MRSMN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Lightscribe
250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS
Mitsumi FA 404M 7in1 USB 2.0 Floppy & Media Drive - Black
 
Cheaper ram will do the job depending on how far you want to overclock, the 6400 runs 266 fsb default with an 8x multiplier so with the ram you've selected you could simply set the fsb to match the ram (400fsb) and the 8x multi on the cpu would then give you 3.2Ghz without pushing the ram, dont forget to change the ram divider to 2x, this is of course not guaranteed but genarally you should be ok and may not even need to alter any voltages.

Latencies etc arent too much of an issue with the Intels it seems.

Nice spec.
The DS4 is a good board, however the DS3 is almost identical and on offer this week, its short of a couple of sata ports and what else i cant remember :o but may save you a few quid to perhaps go towards a nice tube of AS5 :)
 
Steves_pc said:
Cheaper ram will do the job depending on how far you want to overclock, the 6400 runs 266 fsb default with an 8x multiplier so with the ram you've selected you could simply set the fsb to match the ram (400fsb) and the 8x multi on the cpu would then give you 3.2Ghz without pushing the ram, dont forget to change the ram divider to 2x, this is of course not guaranteed but genarally you should be ok and may not even need to alter any voltages.

Latencies etc arent too much of an issue with the Intels it seems.

Nice spec.
The DS4 is a good board, however the DS3 is almost identical and on offer this week, its short of a couple of sata ports and what else i cant remember :o but may save you a few quid to perhaps go towards a nice tube of AS5 :)
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Cheers for that, have been researching the bits for a while now but missed that the DS3 and 4 were so similar.

As Im new to the world of overclocking I dont think I will be pushing it too far.

Any ideas on alternative RAM that would do the job?
Would the Team Elite 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit do the job ? £153 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-004-TG

Thanks
 
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Yep that'll do it, even Ocuk's own would do it too although theres only a 1yr warranty on that, the main criteria is that all the 6400 ram is designed to do 400Mhz fsb.

You'll get a nice overclock on the cpu anyway (hopefully) so you dont need to spend out on ram that'll do 500fsb.

I have the DS4 and Geil 6400 ram with a C2D 6300 and it takes a bit more effort from my ram to get the cpu to 3.36Ghz
 
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