G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 - Anygood?

Jimbo · 20 Jul 2006 at 17:32

I see this is on offer for £124 this week, seems like a bargain to me. I am after ram for my new E6600 conroe rig and want to get the cpu to about 3ghz.. is this the stuff to get? Its about all I can afford in my budget.

Jimbo · 20 Jul 2006 at 19:09

Too late I bought it.

PieL · 20 Jul 2006 at 19:43

Damn those special offers!

I'm gutted bought this for the dearer price this morning before they went on special offer!!

So i paid 114.95 + VAT instead of 124 inc VAT.

Oh well

Jimbo · 20 Jul 2006 at 19:57

Damn, unlucky mate.. I'm sure you wont regret it though.

trojan698 · 20 Jul 2006 at 21:10

lmk how these work out, very interested to find out your results.

Jimbo · 20 Jul 2006 at 21:14

Sure no problem, will do.

Minstadave · 20 Jul 2006 at 21:41

To be honest, you won't find better at that price

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 10:10

I'm getting the NR kit for my conroe rig, but poeple on these forums are saying only get them if you don't plan to overclock, and instead get the HZ kit. I'm sure it's only the looser timings on the NR kit but I didn't think that madxe a difference with Intel systems. There was review of Conroes with different DDR2 timings and the performance was so close between all the timings.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/07/18/core_2_duo_memory_timings/7.html

Diffference between 4-4-4-12 timings and 5-5-5-15 was about two fps.

Minstadave · 21 Jul 2006 at 12:24

fenderbass86 said:
I'm getting the NR kit for my conroe rig, but poeple on these forums are saying only get them if you don't plan to overclock, and instead get the HZ kit. I'm sure it's only the looser timings on the NR kit but I didn't think that madxe a difference with Intel systems. There was review of Conroes with different DDR2 timings and the performance was so close between all the timings.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/07/18/core_2_duo_memory_timings/7.html

Diffference between 4-4-4-12 timings and 5-5-5-15 was about two fps.

The NR and HZ use different ICs, the HZ does clock a whole lot better.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 13:08

A whole lot better? Any idea what sorta speed I could reach with an E6400 + G.Skill NR + Gigabyte DS3? I was hoping near 3GHz.

Quillian · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:18

Yeh, but the price difference is quite big, its more or less £40 I think.

HicRic · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:40

That G-skill has proved to be very popular RAM, OcUK have already sold out of that specific one now! The extra money off must have helped.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 14:42

That's what drew my attention away from the PC2-5300. I really wanted a PC2-6400 kit but didn't want to pay £180.

UKTopGun · 21 Jul 2006 at 15:57

fenderbass86 said:
A whole lot better? Any idea what sorta speed I could reach with an E6400 + G.Skill NR + Gigabyte DS3? I was hoping near 3GHz.

Should be able to get 3Ghz with that

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 16:05

That's what I was hoping until people started posting they;re not for overclocking. WHATEVER!

Minstadave · 21 Jul 2006 at 16:19

fenderbass86 said:
That's what I was hoping until people started posting they;re not for overclocking. WHATEVER!

You can still overclock quite happily, stock for Conroe is PC5300, so any PC6400 is going to give you plenty of headroom.

fenderbass86 · 21 Jul 2006 at 16:33

Minstadave said:
You can still overclock quite happily, stock for Conroe is PC5300, so any PC6400 is going to give you plenty of headroom.

Wicked.

Jimbo · 21 Jul 2006 at 17:30

Ooooooh get in!