Memory upgrade advice

junpei · 28 Aug 2008 at 11:55

Hey all,

Im currently running 4x1gig of OC UK Value ram that i bought a few months ago. it was rated at 1066 but i was never able to run it at this. didnt bother me since i kept it on a 1:1 ration with my FSB. i was told this helps with overclocks at the time. but since then nobody else had said the same. (running 425x8 on a q6600 so thats running at 850mhz on the ram )

So im now concidering a ram upgrade. im looking at 2x2gig reaper OCZ ram currently hovering around the £73 mark. would it be worthwhile me getting this upgrade?

ive head that 2x2gig works better for OC than 4x1gig. and also id almost certainly be able to run at 1066mhz right?

any advice is greatfully accepted!
also note: i intend to water cool this rig shortly to try and get better OC on the cpu. so anything that help me achieve better clocks is a bonus!

edit: you may notice in my sig my ram timings are 4-5-4-6. this is what i managed to get them down too in the bios whilst still retaining 0% faults in memtest (ran too 500% on each stick individually and with all 4 sticks in using mutiple memtest instances)

Cob · 28 Aug 2008 at 13:14

You won't see any gains upgrading tbh. 850mhz 4-5-4-6 is pretty fast and would give 1066mhz 5-5-5-18 a good run for its money.

junpei · 28 Aug 2008 at 13:37

so i wont expect to see any performance boosts with OCing my cpu either then?

i dont mind if thats the case £75 to spend elsewhere.

im getting a 4870, lycosa keyb, lachesis mouse, and some new speakers too ya see ^^; i got one of those hanns-g 28" a few weeks back and its made the rest of my set up look old. aswell as making my 3870 obsolete for native res gaming. totally offtopic here but i was looking at a 4870x2. decided on a 4870 and figured id grab another next month or sell it and upgrade if it still wasnt enough XD cant see a 4870 giving me problems on tf2 though!

Yellowbeard · 28 Aug 2008 at 21:43

If the current memory is holding back a better CPU OC, then upgrade the memory and go for a better OC. If you only change the memory, you will see very little change.

pegasus1 · 29 Aug 2008 at 06:01

OC the CPU but keep the memory at its current speed. With my CPU at 3.4ghz i saw no noticable difference whether i ran my mem at 800 or at 950.

junpei · 29 Aug 2008 at 22:09

thanks for the advice. i may look into the ram in a month or so as im planning to water cool my set up at oc a bit more. i've ordered a gigabyte 4870 today and i heard they are quite noisey (pun?) so water cooling is becoming an option for me.
my tuniq tower is pretty much silent and its in a cooler master cosmos case. i saw a guide in the cooling section of a guy who water cooled is cosmos S, so im thinking about carbon copying his cooling solution!

might push the OC a bit more when that happens