Is Kingston ValueRam suitable for OC?

[dejunjing]

Already have 1G Kingston Valueram for half year, so do not want to spend more on other RAMs recently.

My rig is based on A64 3000+ & Asus A8v Delux

Thanks

 

[Gamingphreek]

No get some corsair Value Select... IMO the best value RAM on the market.

-Kevin

 

[Blazer]

value ram for OCing! NO

LL for OCing ! NO

 

[vanish]

I think you might be able to OC to whatever the speed of the ram is. i dunno if you can push the ram that far though. doubt it.

 

[Somniferum]

Depends what you want to do with it. I have two sticks of 512 Kingston ValueRam DDR333, purchased at different times and places (one bought from Newegg almost 2 years ago, the other from Best Buy a few months ago), and both of them run stable at 392MHz -- Memtest86 confirmed. Mind you, this is at 2.5 3 3 7, but hey, it works! They might go even higher -- I have been constrained by CPU limits above that speed.

I'm using aftermarket heatspreaders on both sticks. Cost around 10 bucks for the pair at Fry's.

Currently I'm running the RAM at 370MHz effective since I traded my 2.4B for a 3.06, and the overclocking math is different.

YMMV of course. But in my experience the answer to your question is "yes".

 

[Sc4freak]

Trust me, Kingston Value RAM is crap for overclocking. I had to loosen timings to 5-5-5 just to get my processor stable at 4.0ghz.

 

[stelleg151]

you have athlon 64, use a divider, get cheap ram, corsair is the best value ram.

edit: you already have a gig? keep it, it is not worth dumping a lot of money on nice ram.

 

[Appledrop]

oh you have a64, then use dividers. if your ram is DDR400 and you want a 2.5ghz overclock on that, try playing with different dividers (cant be bothered to work out the ideal one) and push the HTT to like 280 and to be safe set the Cpu VCOre to 1.575 v. check what your ram MHZ is with cpuz (google it if u haven't got it!) and keep adjusting your divider until your ram is as close to 200mhz as you can make it, without it rebooting your comp.

oh ya, with that a8v, its nice and OC safe, ie, if it fails it will often let you boot up. seems that way anyway... goodluck!

edit:also, depending on how low your ram MHZ goes, you can lower the timings on it as well, for better performance (check my sig - i used divider to get my ram at 170mhz instead of 200, and dropped cas latency to 2, for example)

 

[w00t]

i thought for oc u need good cas latency and higher ram speeds like ddr500 but i dont overclock so dont listen

 

[Toro 45]

Originally posted by: dejunjing
Already have 1G Kingston Valueram for half year, so do not want to spend more on other RAMs recently.

My rig is based on A64 3000+ & Asus A8v Delux

Thanks

Give it a try and find out, I have some PC2700 Kingston Value ram that will do 205fsb no sweat. If yours won't hit the clock speeds you want then buy something better.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Couldn't you just leave the memory at stock speeds and just overclock only the CPU? Memory clock isn't really a significant factor on A64's performance anyway. (Unless you have slow RAM like DDR200)