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Which 4gb PC-6400?

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Placed my order of Win7 so i'll be needing 4gb to make sure everything runs smoothly. So what do you guys recommend for an Abit IP-35 Pro? Currently running some Geil 2gb (see sig) with my CPU OC'd to 3GHz.

Will the 4gb be an easy swap with keeping my current OC? It's on a divider to stop it going above it's rated speed so i presume it won't be a problem.

I was looking at this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-038-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813
 
The Kingston HyperX memory you have linked to will be absolutely fine. Windows 7 with 4GB of RAM will fly. Windows Vista and Windows 7 certainly does on my system that has 4GB of RAM.

Though, I would also suggest reducing the overclock and returning your system back to stock first and then remove your current RAM and replace it with the new set. After you have done that, you can then just change the BIOS settings back to how they were before and you shouldn't encounter any problems.
 
Fire Wizard said:
The Kingston HyperX memory you have linked to will be absolutely fine. Windows 7 with 4GB of RAM will fly. Windows Vista and Windows 7 certainly does on my system that has 4GB of RAM.

Though, I would also suggest reducing the overclock and returning your system back to stock first and then remove your current RAM and replace it with the new set. After you have done that, you can then just change the BIOS settings back to how they were before and you shouldn't encounter any problems.
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Thanks. :)

One last thing. I noticed it's states 1.95v for the kingston in the memory selection page then 1.9v in the description. Which is it? I'm also pretty sure i can't set 0.05 increments in my bios only 0.1. However it has been a while since i changed that setting.
 
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bliss said:
One last thing. I noticed it's states 1.95v for the kingston in the memory selection page then 1.9v in the description. Which is it? I'm also pretty sure i can't set 0.05 increments in my bios only 0.1. However it has been a while since i changed that setting.
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I have just had a look on Kingston's site and it states the voltage for that particular set is 1.9 so there won't be any issue. Even if memory requires 1.95 volts, setting it to 2.0 due to not having an option to raise the memory voltage by 0.5 increments at a time, won't cause an issue.

When you come to purchase the memory, if the Kingston 8500 rated memory is cheaper than the Kingston 6400, then obviously you would be better to go for that. If not though, the Kingston 6400 will be sufficient.
 
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