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Memory recommendation
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:46 pm
by Sava700
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)
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:52 pm
by YARDofSTUF
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:23 am
by Sava700
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
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:17 am
by YARDofSTUF
Ya corsair is usually good stuff, looks like they use every chip under the sun for their 800mhz sticks lol
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:43 pm
by FFKefka77
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:58 pm
by Sava700
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:06 pm
by Mark
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
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:24 pm
by Sava700
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
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:41 pm
by Mark
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:44 am
by Sava700
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)?
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:45 pm
by Rivas
I started using G.skill 2x2048 1066 5 5 5 15 2T
Cant complain.
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:57 pm
by YARDofSTUF
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.