Highest Overclockable RAM & Mobo for PIII

[dowxp]

Hi,

I have been reading up on PIII's and i wanna try out ocing a p3700mhz. i currently have too much ram and they are all crucial cas2. (jumped on the 112 for 256 deal) im pretty sure crucial cant hit above 150. so i only see 2 contestants. some overpriced mushkin 150hsram, or some good ol kingmax tinybga. i wanna hit at least 155 if not 160.

as for motherboards, i have heard that the BE6-II is the most stable and all that. any comments?

- GF2 MX for video. cooling not a problem.

 

[Wah]

why don't you try it first.

 

[AndyHui]

The most stable, if you plan to buy FC-PGA, would be the ASUS CUSL2, in terms of overclocking abilities.

 

[mikef208]

I don't know about the motherboard since I use the AMD proc's, but as for RAM this looks pretty good, and it's cheap. I want some but don't have th money right now. But it seems like everybody that gets some is pleased with it, not too mention a few of the guys say it will do 160mhz.

 

[Biggs]

Look to your right.

 

[LXi]

You want to get the MSI 815E Pro, the reviewer easily hit 149MHz. I dont know any RAM that is capable of gurranteeing speeds like 155-160MHz, but I would bet my money on the Mushkin High Perf Rev3 or Kingmax PC150 to have a good chance of going up there.

 

[soulm4tter]

Don't get a BX board if you want to run at those speeds. I suggest the Asus CUSL2.

 

[ahfung]

I have no problem running my 550E@881MHz, that's 160MHz on Epox BX7+, a venerable BX.

It even booted into Windows 2000 at 906MHz (i.e. 164MHz FSB) and I captured the WCPUID screen for fun. My Infineon PC133 does 150MHz 2-2-3, so it is not memory holding the overclocking back. It gotta be my 550E which is cA2 only.

BX rulez!

 

[LXi]

I agree it rulez, but we should llet the old man rest.

Solano @ 166MHz

 

[ahfung]

I'm not going to let it rest until the new Athlon debuted and DDR is dirt cheap.

BTW, read over Tom's HW you'd find BX150 benchmarkings. FYI here are some quick comparisons:

SYSmark W98SE
1GHz BX133: 194
1GHz i815-166: 197

Expendable
975Hz BX150: 108.8
1GHz i815-166: 106.5

Q3A
975Hz BX150: 150.4
1GHz i815-166: 150

See, even at lower clockrate and FSB, BX150 still beats i815-166 in real world applications.

Long live the king (but the king is dying, I admit that )

 

[Intergalactic]

I'll put another vote down for the old dog, Im running a BE6-II Raid, and was running a BF6 before that both on a 550e slot 1, with my both boards im cruising along at 160mhz FSB, with 1 128MB stick Micron -75 Rev E, and a 1 128MB stick of Apacer Infineon 7.5. I still say that the BX chipset has the best memory bandwidth out there. They also make a FCPGA board the BX Pro Raid or somthing like that, its suposed to be just like the BE6-II Raid just Flip chip style.

 

[dowxp]

THanks all, im probably going bx - abit be-2 raid. cant go wrong with the old chipset. going kingmax to or something.