Tenth Anniversary

Marshall

Marshall

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Im looking at getting some of this Ram at the weekend, its going into a DS4 mobo, and im trying to choose a processor.

the 4300 sounds cool, or maybe the 6300, i want to be able to get about 3.2Ghz

now is getting the ram a waste if im going to run the 4300, and whats the faster chip i could technicaly run with the ram, as im thinking about future upgrades here

cheers for any advice

Marshall
 
Yer I think that your on the right tracks with the 4300... and as for RAM i would personally go with Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C3 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXDD2048M800HC3DC) but thats me :)

As for future proofing... this RAM will do you well... and you could run quad core with this RAM

Stelly
 
E4300 is clearly easier to OC and doesn't need good RAM to oc too. If you're getting the E4300 then just get a ordinary PC6400 will do perfectly.

If you're going for E6300 then you are going to need the Crucual Anniversary to OC well.
 
steve258 said:
E4300 is clearly easier to OC and doesn't need good RAM to oc too. If you're getting the E4300 then just get a ordinary PC6400 will do perfectly.

If you're going for E6300 then you are going to need the Crucual Anniversary to OC well.
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what about the future proofness of the 10th anniversary stuff would i be able to use it on a quad core without it holding the processor back??
 
Crucial 10th has been known to do DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-12 or lower, and DDR2 1000 at 5-5-5-15 or lower, depending, so it's going to be about as futureproof as any DDR2 800 or DDR2 1000 set. That said, the Quad cores dont seem to be hitting the same FSB speeds as the standard C2Ds, so you might not need ram of that calibre as the OC wont be ram-limited so much.

As far as performance and bottlenecking, i cant see 2Gb of 10th bottlenecking a C2Quad, especialy at DDR2 1000!
 
Marshall said:
what about the future proofness of the 10th anniversary stuff would i be able to use it on a quad core without it holding the processor back??
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On the contrary. Crucial Ann. is very good for high FSB OCs of 500Mhz+, but quad core chip is not as ocable as C2D simply because more heat and not every one core of the 4 ocs the same. Therefore you wouldn't need the Crucial Ann. stuff simply because an ordinary PC6400 RAM will keep up with quad core just fine, unless of course you wish to run divider to run your RAM faster than the FSB.
 
Stelly said:
Yer I think that your on the right tracks with the 4300... and as for RAM i would personally go with Team Xtreem 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C3 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXDD2048M800HC3DC) but thats me :)

As for future proofing... this RAM will do you well... and you could run quad core with this RAM

Stelly
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lol the xtreemC3 is 100quid more than the 10th An. I think paying 3 times more for your ram than your CPU is a little bit OTT.

It gutted me paying 170quid for my geil :( but i am a tight git :D
 
wolvotim said:
lol the xtreemC3 is 100quid more than the 10th An. I think paying 3 times more for your ram than your CPU is a little bit OTT.

It gutted me paying 170quid for my geil :( but i am a tight git :D
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Aye I agree, at least ram keeps its price a lot better, my old FX-53 I bought for about £500 3 years ago is only worth about £80 now lol :rolleyes:
 
steve258 said:
On the contrary. Crucial Ann. is very good for high FSB OCs of 500Mhz+, but quad core chip is not as ocable as C2D simply because more heat and not every one core of the 4 ocs the same. Therefore you wouldn't need the Crucial Ann. stuff simply because an ordinary PC6400 RAM will keep up with quad core just fine, unless of course you wish to run divider to run your RAM faster than the FSB.
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i was hoping to run a 1:1 divider on the ram as i was told the pc should run faster. is there any benefit of running the ram faster than the FSB?

also instead of using the 10th Anniversary ram would http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-124-CS
be better??
 
Running RAM faster than the FSB will provide more mem bandwidth and should theoretically perform better, especially for bandwidth hungry Intel. But IMO the difference is only obvious in benchmarks and in real life applications running RAM faster than FSB has little / no performance benefits. That's just my experiences though with my old P4 and DDR so might not be true with DDR2.

That Corsair Dominator PC6400C4 has the same Micron D9 GMH chips that are used in the Tenth Anniversary, but ONLY for the Rev 1.2. It doesn't actually state in the product description which revision of PC6400C4 OCUK stocks, so I'd say if you are spending that much on RAM go for the Anniversary so at least you are guaranteed to get the mighty D9 GMH.
 
steve258 said:
Running RAM faster than the FSB will provide more mem bandwidth and should theoretically perform better, especially for bandwidth hungry Intel. But IMO the difference is only obvious in benchmarks and in real life applications running RAM faster than FSB has little / no performance benefits. That's just my experiences though with my old P4 and DDR so might not be true with DDR2.

That Corsair Dominator PC6400C4 has the same Micron D9 GMH chips that are used in the Tenth Anniversary, but ONLY for the Rev 1.2. It doesn't actually state in the product description which revision of PC6400C4 OCUK stocks, so I'd say if you are spending that much on RAM go for the Anniversary so at least you are guaranteed to get the mighty D9 GMH.
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Nope, the Corsair Dominator 1.2s have Promos :) The batches before November last year had Microns :)
 
so im still probably best off going for the 10th anniversary stuff

or is there anything else you lot can suggest, ive got about £200 to spend on 2gb.

whats the mushkin stuff like?
 
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