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mojojoejo

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Hello!

Well been on this place for years, but not overclocked yet - but I am intending to do so very soon. But I have a couple of queries really, here's the hardware I have at the moment:

Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz
Asus P5WD2 Premium
Tagan 480W PSU
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower
Coolermaster Blue Ice Northbridge cooler
Antec P180 Case

Now the question I have is Ram. From what I gather the aim is to up the FSB on this chip from the 133 upwards in the direction of the 200, now what I'm curious about is what Ram would be good for this? Do these LGA775's need the CPU and Ram fsb to run in synch, or can I get away with running 533 FSB DDR2 stuff? Currently I have 2gb of 533 stuff, unbranded and I don't know how well (if at all) it will clock.

Any advice would be appreciated (and tips of course ;)) if I should look at better ram, what is the best priced performance stuff I can get? I'm a little low on fundage at the moment as I've been trying to get some nice hardware together to get this to work, I've got a nasty feeling I will need to swap the ram out but any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance
 
Can this be moved to the Ram forum please - thinking about it this thread would probably do better there.

Sorry mods!

:)
 
run a divider on the ram i assume, do a google search to start, toms hardware had an article on clocking your cpu mind look there first.
 
kdd said:
run a divider on the ram i assume, do a google search to start, toms hardware had an article on clocking your cpu mind look there first.
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The ram is rated up to 533 (267) and he only plans to use a max of 200-210 FSB... so just run it 1:1 (in sync) with the CPU FSB and ti will work fine.
 
Ahh cool! didn't know if the 533 meant it was just 4x133 as per the normal ram sticks :)

Will give it a go with the ram I have for now then - cheers for the help.

KDD - I've read a few articles, was more wondering about people's personal recommendations & experiences with said chip and if any ram in particular was the trend on here. And yes, I did google - many people use many different types and brands of ram, hence I asked :)
 
mojojoejo said:
Ahh cool! didn't know if the 533 meant it was just 4x133 as per the normal ram sticks :)
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DDR = Double Data Rate

It is the FSB of the Intel that is quad pumped (i.e. 200mhz FSB x 15 will be a 3ghz / 800mhz chip) the ram runs at the same rate as the FSB and is doubled.
 
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