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Memory recommendation for P5B-E

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I have no experience myself with OCZ but when I read reviews using a variety of AM2 and Socket T mobos the people that have the most trouble seem to be people buying OCZ which are often the cheapest.

I was only going to consider Crucial, Corsair and Mushkin but after reading these posts maybe eliminate the Corsair. Curiously, it has done well in reviews that I have read. I would be grateful for a link showing its lack of OC capability.
 
That OCZ is DDR2-900 but with looser timing, I guess.
Many people try to OC the DDR2-800 and good chips (Micron D9) will get them to DDR2-1000 range. I wonder if I could just buy the DDR2-900 and start from that, instead of 800.
 
Originally posted by: tpalik
I have no experience myself with OCZ but when I read reviews using a variety of AM2 and Socket T mobos the people that have the most trouble seem to be people buying OCZ which are often the cheapest.

I was only going to consider Crucial, Corsair and Mushkin but after reading these posts maybe eliminate the Corsair. Curiously, it has done well in reviews that I have read. I would be grateful for a link showing its lack of OC capability.
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Mushkin is impossible to find. Currently the Redline series is the best overclocker you can get, but can't get it.

Corsair is luck (unless you buy dominator which I may do). Corsair bins D9 chips to Dominator and some to the Pro lines that don't match their standards for dominator. Their other lines are using promos and other chips that do not respond well to voltages, overclocks, and adjusted timings. Crucial uses all Micron chips but they do bin them for their higher performance DDR2-1000 line. Although with crucial I wonder if they don't keep some special bins of the D9 chips for their own memory (they are a division of micron after all). This may be the case with their 10th anniversary memory. DDR2-667 3-3-3 and some people run it at DDR2-1000 4-4-4

I've been reading and studying alot of info on DDR2 memory lately since I'm going to be buying replacements for my current Corsair which will go to another system (doesn't clock well anyway). I am looking at Corsair Dominator DDR2-800C4 or Crucial Ballistix. Still a little undecided.
 
Question again on that Ballistix. It rated @ 2.2v stock but P965 is known to be run lower (1.8v?). Would this create problem??
 
Originally posted by: tempoct
Question again on that Ballistix. It rated @ 2.2v stock but P965 is known to be run lower (1.8v?). Would this create problem??
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It will boot, but you'll have to adjust the voltages to 2.2v and the timings to the rated timings. Otherwise it will run at very loose timings and may be unstable.
 
I went with the red g.skill - $215 shipped. They work flawlessly but I'm not overclocking (much). My guess is the performance/cost does not justitfy the extra $70...
 
Originally posted by: markrb38
What about these $257 after rebate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220144

or these $275
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820150054

or these 270
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144028

what out of those three or another no more money can you recomend?

Mark
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I'm interested in what others have to say about those as well. I can't justify spending close to 300$ on memory when at that point I could still get the cheaper memory and just go up to an E6600 instead of an E6400
 
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: tempoct
Question again on that Ballistix. It rated @ 2.2v stock but P965 is known to be run lower (1.8v?). Would this create problem??
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It will boot, but you'll have to adjust the voltages to 2.2v and the timings to the rated timings. Otherwise it will run at very loose timings and may be unstable.
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I have the Ballistix in my P5B-E with an E6400. The system would not boot with the default ram voltage. I had to put a stick of cheap RAM in and up the voltage to 1.9 for it to even boot with the Ballistix.

Currently running memtest on that machine, running 2.1v on the RAM with 5-5-5-15 timings and failing at 333Mhz. I'm really thinking this board isn't putting out enough power for this memory. So far, I'm not impressed.
 
I have a P5B-E mobo and I'm using the Crucial PC2-6400 BL2KIT12864AA804 - having problems with compatibility (system will post with an 'overclocking error' and you cannot reboot unless you unplug the power completely. Crucial says they are compatible.

Anybody has any suggestions?

Thanks,
Raz
 
This is IMHO.
That Crucial is rated @ 2.2v and P5B-E is maxed out @ 2.1v.
I would try to max out Vdimm on your set up and see if it helps. It wouldn't hurt the RAM since 2.1v is still lower than the RAM spec. If that doesn't help, try loose your timing a bit.
Also, try one stick at a time.

tempoct

Originally posted by: ssaileanu
I have a P5B-E mobo and I'm using the Crucial PC2-6400 BL2KIT12864AA804 - having problems with compatibility (system will post with an 'overclocking error' and you cannot reboot unless you unplug the power completely. Crucial says they are compatible.

Anybody has any suggestions?

Thanks,
Raz
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