Memory recommendation

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:46 pm

Recommend 4gigs of Memory for this board..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813189003

Budget of 150$(rough estimate on next upgrade minus what I want to put for processor Quad core)

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:52 pm

Is height an issue?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820144120

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227267

And theres cheaper too if timings aren't important to you.:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820144216

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231122 - 6 layer PCB, powerchip chips(according to ramlist)

Most i couldnt get info on ramlist, newer I guess.

Ram list site: http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:23 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227267

Ohh I like that set... love the heat pipe!

This was the set I was looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820145176

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:17 am

Ya corsair is usually good stuff, looks like they use every chip under the sun for their 800mhz sticks lol

FFKefka77 · Post by **FFKefka77** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:43 pm

what about this ram?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220293

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:58 pm

FFKefka77 wrote:what about this ram?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220293

naw I don't care for Patriot...heard bad things about them.

Hell I've even leaned away from Crucials Ballistix line since they really screwed me on a build a few years ago with crappy chips..they even admitted to it but didn't call for a recall..you were pretty much on your own.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:06 pm

i'm using this memory, it was only a bit more for 1000 vs. 800 so i figured why not, funny thing is i am only running it at 384/768 right now, so i guess i should have saved a few bucks LOL

still finding the CPU max speed and then might work on the memory timings some.

what CPU/mobo are you looking at ?

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820231145

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:24 pm

Mark wrote:i'm using this memory, it was only a bit more for 1000 vs. 800 so i figured why not, funny thing is i am only running it at 384/768 right now, so i guess i should have saved a few bucks LOL

still finding the CPU max speed and then might work on the memory timings some.

what CPU/mobo are you looking at ?

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6820231145

I posted the motherboard in the first post..I was looking at this processor:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.a ... 6819115043

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:41 pm

that chip has a low multiplier of 7.5 so you would need to push the FSB really high, most boards will top out before you get past 3.5Ghz.

quads really stress the northbridge when overclocked i am finding out from my readings.

"However, besides indisputable advantages, this new processor has one significant drawback, which may make the overclocker future of this solution quite doubtful. Although Yorkfield processors can overclock up to 4GHz (without any extreme cooling solutions involved), Core 2 Quad Q9300 cannot reach that frequency. Since the new quad-core generation started supporting 1333MHz bus, their multipliers got considerably lower. For example, Core 2 Quad Q9300 we have discussed today works with 7.5x multiplier, which doesn’t allow this processor to get past 3.4-3.5GHz because contemporary mainboards have pretty limited functionality when it comes to increasing the FSB frequency past 460-470MHz by quad-core CPUs. And this is actually even lower than the maximum frequency quad core processors from the Kentsfield family, including Core 2 Quad Q6600, can reach."

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00_14.html

just thought i would add this info for ya.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:44 am

Mark wrote:that chip has a low multiplier of 7.5 so you would need to push the FSB really high, most boards will top out before you get past 3.5Ghz.

quads really stress the northbridge when overclocked i am finding out from my readings.

"However, besides indisputable advantages, this new processor has one significant drawback, which may make the overclocker future of this solution quite doubtful. Although Yorkfield processors can overclock up to 4GHz (without any extreme cooling solutions involved), Core 2 Quad Q9300 cannot reach that frequency. Since the new quad-core generation started supporting 1333MHz bus, their multipliers got considerably lower. For example, Core 2 Quad Q9300 we have discussed today works with 7.5x multiplier, which doesn’t allow this processor to get past 3.4-3.5GHz because contemporary mainboards have pretty limited functionality when it comes to increasing the FSB frequency past 460-470MHz by quad-core CPUs. And this is actually even lower than the maximum frequency quad core processors from the Kentsfield family, including Core 2 Quad Q6600, can reach."

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 00_14.html

just thought i would add this info for ya.

whats your suggestions by still staying within that price range for those 3 parts(cpu,ram, and mobo)?

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:45 pm

I started using G.skill 2x2048 1066 5 5 5 15 2T
Cant complain.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:57 pm

Sava700 wrote:whats your suggestions by still staying within that price range for those 3 parts(cpu,ram, and mobo)?

If your main thing is gaming I'd snag the dual core 3ghz chip instead. I dont see 4 cores being necessary too soon.