Memory overclocking questions

Jaggie

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Bear with me, I'm a complete newbie with overclocking.

Current setup is Asus A7V8X, Thermosonic Thermoengine heatsink, 7k RPM Delta fan, 1.4 GHz Thunderbird, 2x256 PC2100 Crucial, GeForce 3.
On the way: Swiftech 462 heatsink, Vantec Tornado fan, 2 more case fans

Now I'm looking at getting one of the 2100+ t-bred rev. b's. Would my memory suffice at the high stages of overclocking (looking to get it to at least 2.25, hopefully a bit higher), or would I need to get something like the Corsair PC3200 stick at Newegg?
 

LED

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It'll work but you'll prolly have to bump the multiplier up instead of the FSB past the 140's...for full benefit you'll most likely need better RAM
 

Jaggie

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OK, fair enough. I've been looking at two different kinds, which do you all suggest?

Samsung Original DDR400 PC-3200 512MB - OEM Version DDR 400MHz True PC 3200 chip (Not over clock from PC-2700 chip) CL3
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CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 512MB 32MX8 PC-3200C2 With Heat Spreader 400MHz CAS Latency 2-3-3-6-T1
 

watjac

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I've heard that the newer samsung chips aren't that great the 2700 original that has C not D in its model number was awesome stuff. I've heard alot of good things about twinmos stuff. I just ordered two 250 mb sticks of the 3200 cl2.5 stuff for 76 a piece. They use the same chips that corsair uses in their 3500 c2 stuff. People seem to be getting about the same performance from it too. WWW.memoryx.net is where i ordered it from for that low price.
 

Wind

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Samsung Original DDR400 PC-3200 512MB - OEM Version DDR 400MHz True PC 3200 chip (Not over clock from PC-2700 chip) CL3
or
CORSAIR MEMORY XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 512MB 32MX8 PC-3200C2 With Heat Spreader 400MHz CAS Latency 2-3-3-6-T1
I'll take the Corsair.