Spec me some ace RAM

[FosterK]

Gonna have £200 - £250 to spend in a couple of weeks.

Got a DFI SLI-DR Expert, and I'm after some compatible RAM that's stable, but will overclock nicely.

Currently using 2GB GeIL Value, but that falls over and dies when I try to raise anything, also occasionally crashes when a lot is going on (BF2 a fair few times) and I'm now after something that, well... doesn't do the aforementioned.

Ta.

 

[MoNkeE]

A quick scan through OcUK points me to...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Enhanced_Bandwidth_Series.html
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC4000 Dual Channel Platinum Series EB-DDR CAS3 (OCZ5002048EBPE-K) (MY-058-OC)

The fact it's rated PC4000 should allow you to run the FSB at 250 (I think?), which just means that you'll be relying on your CPU clocking past that point

But I really don't know much about memory.

-RaZ

 

[MoNkeE]

Actually, the 2nd choice on the Mushkin selection looks fantastic - £182 for a 2GB kit of PC4000 - slightly slacker timings than the OCZ, but I wouldn't worry about that.


-RaZ

 

[Street]

Or you could get the Corsair 3500LL.

Mine is stable at [email protected] at 2.6V, have spoken to another few people as well and they all seem to be getting around the same results.

Thats the best I got out of mine, they didnt give any memtest errors at that speed, but any higher and my CPU started going belly up. I run everything stable at 250MHz now

 

[Bito]

Nice
Did you try with slacker timings ^

 

[man_from_uncle]

I get similar results as Street with mine. At CAS2 they can still manage 236 at 2-3-2-5. They can hit 280+ 3-4-4-8 but i've not bothered experimenting with 1:1 too much at the tighter timings/lower speed fit in better with my overclock.