Memory for 64 3200+ Nforce 250gb based board? Also Fan Questions

[Ages120]

Well this is going to be my new gaming system for a while to come. Have everything pinned down except ram and mobo at this point. I know it will be a Nforce 250gb though.

On to the fan Questions. I wanna know is a Vantec Stealth 92mm effective enough combined with aThermalright Copper Heatsink SLK948U. I will be overlcocking so should I get more effective cooling. I have a Volcano coolmod on my Barton 2500+ right now and the thing drove me insane till I put the thermal sensor on the damn thing. Also I will be getting some case fans for my barton system 80mm what would you suggest.

Well here are the components.

Case Thermaltake Highest Xaser III Super Tower Case Plenty of space and cooling

Power Supply Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480W with Black housing - Purepower Butterfly
I think this will suite my needs nicely but, go ahead and recommend your favorite though plz.

CPU AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1MB L2 Cache

Heatsink Thermalright Copper Heatsink SLK948U
Fan Vantec "Stealth" 92mm Smart Case fan

MotherBoard EPOX 8KDA3+ nVidia nForce3-250Gb Waiting till it comes out Might go with a different 250gb board if they get good reviews and testimony

Video Card X800XT Its out now and a lot less then expected I think I will finally have a 1 year capable system. Last time I thought that though I got a Gf3 and it left me hating Nvidia ever since. Pixel shader 3.0 fan boys can bite me.

Hard Drive WD Raptor SATA 74 gig

I wanna get ram above PC 3500 which is a top performer and overclocks well that also works well with Athlon 64s so I have some head room to overclock. Been looking at OCZ EB ram but I posted to see what you guys recommend.

 

[Diogenes2]

I have had good results with 2 x 512 of the following RAM on the Chaintech VNF3

Komusa Hyperam PC4200

HardcoreCooling PC4200

Adata PC4000

Can run Memtest86 and Prime, stable up to 255 1:1 with two sticks..

 

[Richdog]

OCZ PC3500 or pC3700 EB is the A64 king, it's awesome.

 

[djm68]

If you want kick-booty RAM for the AMD platform go for OCZ 3500 or 3700EB. I have 2x512 in my Chaintech vnf3-250 running @ ddr500 with ease...only 2.8v vdimm. Awesome stuff

Cheers,
DJM

Chaintech vnf3-250 | A64 3200+ @ 2250 | Swiftech MCX6400-V cooled
2x512Mb OCZ 3700EB | Sapphire 9800 PRO Ultimate - Zalman cooled.
Enermax EG475AX-VE Noisetake PS

 

[CdnAtWork]

Would the following ram be alright with my 3400+?

OCZ 1 GB DDR 500 Performance Kit
High performance PC4000 dual-channel memory kit
2 x 512MB optimized pair
CAS latency 3-4-4-8
Copper heatspreader

or would i be better off with this...

OCZ DUAL CHANNEL ENHANCED BANDWIDTH 2X1024MB PC3200

 

[FunkierThanU]

Originally posted by: CdnAtWork
Would the following ram be alright with my 3400+?


or would i be better off with this...

OCZ DUAL CHANNEL ENHANCED BANDWIDTH 2X1024MB PC3200

If you can afford it, then EB is definitely the way to go.

 

[Ages120]

Should I got 3500 or 3700 eb ram?

 

[djm68]

Hey Ages,

I had the same question and I went for the 3700 -- I was not under big budgets constaints, so I went for the "guaranteed" speed. Either way, 3500 or 3700, you are getting great memory.

DJM

 

[Ages120]

Thanks for you help guys I am gonna go with the OCZ3500EB. Would have gone for the 3700 but I wanted to get another 512 stick for the system I am upgrading from. Seems every game today needs a gig to keep page files from coming into use. I should be able to make up the performance loss from the 3500 with some overlcocking. The 3500 ram seems to really shine the more you overclock it.

Also been checking out the Epox Nforce 250Gb board and its not gonna suite my needs. No mounting holes, so no Thermal Right hs is getting on there. Good thing the MSI Neo platinum is out, just hope they put some quality capacitors on it. Now when are those next gen Video cards gonna flood onto the market.

 

[Illissius]

512MB OCZ PC3500EB - $143
512MB ADATA Vitesta PC4000 - $108

From what I've read of the ADATA (at the ocforums mostly), people are satisfied with them and can usually get them to 270-280MHz.