E6600 4Gig Ram OC

[duotronic]

Hi,

My goal is to build an overclocked E6600 Vista[no comments please] system with 4 Gigs of ram, running an 8800gts video card. The tricky part of this setup willl be a getting a decent OC with 1:1 ram setting using 4 1Gig sticks.
I am looking at Anandtech's Guide; so I'm considering the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mainboard and Super Talent 4x1GB DDR2-800. I am still deciding on a cooler, but whatever it is, it won't be the stock HFC.
Does anyone have suggestions for RAM and Mainboard that would be a better pick for this goal?

Thanks,
Thomas

 

[Zardnok]

What do you consider a decent OC?? Running that RAM at its rated speeds will give you 3.6 with that chip. O/C slightly from there and you are fast reaching the limits of air cooling. For what it is worth, I just purchased a DS3, an e6400, and some OCZ Plat Rev.2 PC2-6400 RAM, but I think you can get a decent OC with just about any DDR2-800 RAM with the 9X multiplier on an e6600.

 

[duotronic]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. A 3.6Ghz clock would certainly be decent. 🙂

BTW: I've done some more reading and find that 4GB Ram idea is not a good idea for the 32bit version of Vista. I'm too used to working with servers and didn't realize how serious the ram limitation is in a workstation.
Bottom line: 4 sticks would likely limit the overclock. And the mainboard and OS would not support more than a third of the ram anyway!

 

[Brunnis]

I have 4GB (4*1GB) in my P5B and it works perfectly. I've achieved stability at 835MHz 4-4-4-12 on 2.1V with some cheap Crucial DDR2-667 mem. WinXP doesn't recognize all 4GB, but Vista 64-bit does, so it's fine with me.