Question about memory and overclocking. Confused.

[Pez D Spencer]

Im going to build myself a new system for christmas. 7800GT 256MB SLI setup, Athlon 64 X2 4400+ CPU, and 2GB RAM.

I plan on reading up and maybe trying to overclock the CPU a little at some point. The problem is that I'm a little confused. If I plan to do any overclocking, do I need RAM thats faster than the PC3200 that my motherboard calls for? Or do you only need RAM that is faster than what the motherboard calls for if you plan to overclock the RAM itself?

Also, what brand of RAM do you guys reccomend? I am leaning toward pqi or OCZ (1GBx2) because they both got good ratings on Newegg.

Personally, I think that system is gonna smoke without any overclocking but like I said I might try it down the road after I read up on it. I hope I dont get flamed for asking these questions instead of just reading an OC tutorial but I dont even know if its something I wanna do so I really dont wanna waste my time reading a bunch of tutorials if I might not even do it. I just wanna make sure that I have what I need in case I do decide to do it later.

Thanks in advance.

 

[stability99]

Sure you do.

OC is tweak science. YOu increase FSB and dividers, you need more RAM Bus.

For me, Corsair or OCZ are all good, but OCZ is cheaper and we can RMA now in Nord America. In the past, I hate OCZ because I need to RMA it to Taiwan. No big deal. But now I love them very much.

 

[The Sauce]

If you get a board like the DFI, and you have plenty of memory dividers, then you will never NEED to overclock your memory and will always be able to run it at around 200MHz. No matter how high you o/c your proc.

PS - if you are planning on overclocking get an opteron, not an X2.