pc3200 2-2-2-5 or pc3700 2-3-3-8 for oc?

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I want to upgrade my system a bit. Ive an amd3400 1Mb cache on an asus k8n-e with a gig of corsair true value pc3200 2.5-3-3-8 and cannot get more than a 5% oc stable. Ive an extra 300ish bucks and want to upgrade. After some research, Ive narrowed things down to some ocz pc3700 2-3-3-8 sticks and corsairs pc3200 2-2-2-5. I want to oc my system at least a good 15-20% with rock hard stability. Which would be the way to go? Or should I just save another hundred bucks and get the amd3700 and oc it a meager 5%? Help. any helpful data would be great. Ultumately, my question is which of these options will show the better performance upgrade while having solid stability.
 
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The OCZ PC3700 uses the same Samsung TCCD chips that the Corsair PC3200 uses so go with whichever one is cheaper.
 
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just to be sure... you did change the HTT multiplier, right?

Anyways either ram should have plenty of headroom, both should make ddr500 at least or 250x12= 3ghz which is higher than your CPU should be able to reach. I would recommend the cheaper ram personally.
 
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Originally posted by: miketheidiot
just to be sure... you did change the HTT multiplier, right?

Anyways either ram should have plenty of headroom, both should make ddr500 at least or 250x12= 3ghz which is higher than your CPU should be able to reach. I would recommend the cheaper ram personally.
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Well, if he did get DDR500 RAM, then he'd have to turn down his CPU multiplier anyways. 250x10 seems more realistic and he'd get pretty good memory bandwidth.
 
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my mobo will only allow up to 11x multiplier. and are those both the same chip? the ocz 3700 2 3 3 8 and corsair pc3200 2 2 2 5 are same samsung chip with different faces? how is that?
 
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The Samsung TCCD chips can overclock really well. Hell, OCZ uses the same chips for their PC4200 EL Platinum.
 
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so why do they advertise some with 466 mhz at 2 3 3 8 and some at 400 mhz at 2 2 2 5 if thier the same. would I be able to oc my fsb to 225 and get 2 2 2 5 timings with wither one. I suppose I should go with the one that supprts higher voltages, or are they all the same in that respect as well?
Will my timings ultumately suffer if I oc it up to the 225 230 neighborgood?
 
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Originally posted by: newmenu
will I be able to take these http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=20-227-017&depa=1 and be able to fix them to have 2225 timings if oc'oing my system to 225 fsb? From what ive read these 2 2 2 5 sticks lose theire great latency if you oc your fsb.
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I originally had these chips in my system and was very disappointed in them. At stock 200 FSB, they would NOT run 2-2-2-5 even though they are basically the same chips and PCB that the Rev 2 uses. Instead, they will only run at 2-3-3-8 at stock speeds. As far as pushing it, I could only get them stable at 3-3-3-10 2T at DDR520 1:1. Anything else, they crapped out and caused Prime to crash after test 1. Now I could have gotten a bum set from Newegg as the did have the older style heatspreaders on them with the OCZ logo indented, and not the new sticker they are using. Don't know. Needless to say, after 2 weeks of frustration, 2 3200+ processors, and many hours of testing, they went back to Newegg for G.Skill PC4400 LE which run 2-2-2-5 at lower FSB speeds, and right now are chugging along at 2.5-3-3-6 1T at DDR520 1:1, 2.7v! This of course is on a K8N Neo2 Platinum! :)

Of course, your mileage may vary...


 
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