Need advice

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Currently looking at these products. As a matter of fact, I am logged in and looking to add the memory to the shopping cart. I need memory advice for these two items:

Asus P5KC Intel P35
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16813131188R

Intel C2Q 9300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?Item=N82E16819115040R

I'm not sure what to go for. CPU says 1333fsb MB offers DDR2 & DDR3 support; total of 6 memory slots... which memory would be best to clock this up to 3.5?

 

[Martimus]

If you can get it that high, you would need 933MHz ram or higher. That would require 466MHz FSB though, which is no small feat.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

DDR2-1000/1066 or good DDR2-800. (micron D9 chips)

 

[Drsignguy]

Well I can't say anything about the "open box" items as I never had given it a try. Never wanted to as I would rather pay the few extra bucks to get all the Items it supposed to come with. But I can say that as for memory, I wouldn't get DDR3 as its cost to peformance compaired to DDR2 is outrageous. DDR2 is pretty inexpensive right now anyway. As for the CPU, it has a multiplier of 7.5 and overclocking with a .5 ( so i have read ) will be more of a challenge. I would get some more opinions before I would purchase.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I read the fsb is automatically set to 333, now correct me cause im a little green to overclocking, but, setting the fsb to 400 will bring it to 3.0Ghz, and a setting roughly at 7.5 (multi) * 467 fsb = 3502.5 ...i'd even be happy at 3Ghz

EDIT: will DDR3 fit into and work in DDR2 slots???

 

[PolymerTim]

No, DDR2 and DDR3 have physically different slots. The P5KC has 2 slots for DDR3 and 4 slots for DDR3. Generally, you would only buy this board if you wanted DDR2 now, but wanted to upgrade to DDR3 later without changing out your motherboard.

And as BlueAcolyte said, you should do fine with some quality DDR2-800, but you could go with DDR2-1000 if you wanted to make sure RAM isn't holding you back.

Edit:
There's a wide range of DDR2 at good prices right now. Here's a good option that is known to perform well.

$75 G.SKILL 4GB(2x2) DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 @ 1.8-1.9V
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231122