Memory req for ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

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My board is here. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-VSTA&s=

What's the best memory to get, DDR2, at 667MHz? I have a E2140 (not oc'd, but was running at 2.2 GHz for a while there.



I'll get 2x 1GB sticks, what PC number should it be? PC4200?


Thanks all






read if you can be bothered:

I have 2x 512MB TwinMOS DDR ram that I got about 5 years ago and recently #I'm getting loads of errors which I think are mem related, stop errors, and memory could not be reads. I ran memtest ages ago and it did flag up some problems, so I need to get new mem.
 
Any of the PC5300 will do. There's no point in buying PC2-4200 these days as PC5300 is just as cheap.

I would try to get something that needs less than 2.0v with that board.
 
ojrules said:
i've got that motherboard.. (dont like it) .. it will only take 2gb ram, and you can't overclock the ram...
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How do you mean? My DDR 400 was running at 250+ Mhz?

Besides I didn't buy the board for OCing, I bought it cos it was cheap and provided a good upgrade path, with DD1 + DDR2, and AGP + PCIE.

Thanks Cob, I'll get some PC5300.
 
Got the same board, running 2 x 1gb sticks of corsair xms on a 1:1. Runs well, got my e6600 at 2.74ghz, is there a way to get more than 300 fsb and a boot out of it?
 
hey sorry how do you clock the ram!??.. i know you can change the timings ( but dotn know which ones to change), but i didnt know that you coul dclock the mhz
 
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ojrules said:
i've heard this mobo hits a wall at 291...
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Yeah, I read a while back that the OC potential is limited, but as I said i's not a concern of mine.

291 for DDR?


as posted above it'll goto 333 for DDR2.


The alternative at the time for me was a SATA card + 2x 500 gig drives, which equated to nearly 200 at the time, but I got the board and proc for 70 new, plus the drives came to about 220. and keep my mem, PATA drives, and AGP gfx,. No brainer really. From a XP1900+
 
I had this board as an upgrade path. When it came to upgrading the RAM I didn't see any improvement in ram speed when upgrading from budget DDR's PC3200 to crucial ballistix DDR2 PC6400. In fact I had to take my FSB down on my overclock from 305FSB to 275.

If you're sticking with the board I would say get the cheapest memory you can. If its a step in upgrading Get he best you can that doesn't like a high voltage as it can't be set on this board and may give you errors if undervolted.
 
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