From 800mhz -> 1066mhz DDR2? Advice.

[Stangs55]

Just built my new rig with 4gb of Corsair Dominator Twin2X2048-6400C4D, and I have another week or so to trade any parts in that I do not want.

Should I upgrade to 4gb of OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel? What kind of performance increase will I see going going from 800->1066mhz...if any? I'm interested in this memory in particular because it seems to perform especially well on 680i chipsets. Any other memory recommendations?

Thanks

eVGA 680i | QX6700 Quad Core | 8800 GTX x2 SLI | 4 Gb Corsair PC2-6400C4D | OCZ 1kw PSU | Vista x64 Ultimate

 

[oynaz]

How much are planning to overclock?

 

[Stangs55]

Not so much that I'm getting BSOD's at every turn...but i'll definately want to OC it. I plan on bumping a voltage a bit, upping the frequency, and then tweaking the timings some until I find a STABLE setup..but no water cooling, just air.

 

[Stangs55]

bump

 

[Roguestar]

The Corsair will let you overclock to 3.6Ghz just by changing the multiplier to 9 and FSB to 400 (not overclocking the RAM at all) but the entire point of the 680i chipset is surely that you can run memory and FSB asynchronously and not need to worry about spending $394769373400 on RAM?

 

[yh125d]

Keep your current RAM.