What 5-5-5 ram OC well with the 1.86ghz c2d?

[imaheadcase]

Im not looking for a huge overclock, but does 5-5-5 ram give me a good overclock on this card with the gigabyte DS3 motherboard? I would like to order it today if its a good purchase vs the expensive 4-4-4.

I would like to get to around 2.8-3ghz area. Not looking for insane oc.

I can't seem to find that recent overclock article about this..mmm

Thanks!

 

[Duvie]

Well if you want to run 2.8ghz which is 7x400 you should be able to find ample PC6400 800DDR2 stuff that can run cas 5....

How much ram do you need? 1gb or 2gb?

How cheap do you need it? There is plenty of ram capable of cas 5 in those range for 130-200 for 1gb

I know the Gskill 1000ddr2 stuff at newegg for 180 for 1gb (may be out of stock nmow though) can do 1000 with cas 5-5-5-15 at 2.2-2.3v....My gskill PC6400 800ddr2 was like 220 back about 4 months ago and it is running DC mode at cas 5-5-5-15 at 933ddr2 (100% stable) with 2.3v

****Always do research and check for compatability to your motherboard...also falsh board immediately to newest bios upon receiving it...Most shipping are still about 2-3 bios fixes behind...****

 

[imaheadcase]

I went ahead and settled on memory on the list, I don't want to "take a chance" on memory with it costing so much i just got the CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) memory. has a $40 mail in rebate, so if that works the peace of mind is nice 😀

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: imaheadcase
I went ahead and settled on memory on the list, I don't want to "take a chance" on memory with it costing so much i just got the CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) memory. has a $40 mail in rebate, so if that works the peace of mind is nice 😀

I just read the list and was going to point that out to you.....I have always had great luck with corsair ram....use it in all of my opteron boxes...

 

[n7]

Argh, why do so many people get Corsair 😕

Aside from the Dominator series, AFAIK all the Corsair kits out there use Elpida chips, which means you are screwed for any serious OCing unless you get really lucky.

This is much better RAM (D9s) & cheap enough, if getting Team Xtreem or G.Skill HZ is too much:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820148017

 

[Brunnis]

I've got to pimp my über cheap Kingmax DDR2-667 5-5-5 again. I'm currently running them on 902MHz 4-4-4-12 on 2.08V and they can definitely go higher if given more volts. Pretty good considering it was the cheapest 667MHz mem I could find. 🙂

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: n7
Argh, why do so many people get Corsair 😕

Aside from the Dominator series, AFAIK all the Corsair kits out there use Elpida chips, which means you are screwed for any serious OCing unless you get really lucky.

This is much better RAM (D9s) & cheap enough, if getting Team Xtreem or G.Skill HZ is too much:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820148017

Yep, but Corsair also uses Promos chips which fair no better than elpida.

If you got Corsair I hope you got This

Uses Micron D9 chips

 

[caberguy]

I got the G.Skill F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ 2GB (Red heat spreaders) kit last week, it's $210 at Newegg and Chiefvalue (I actually got it from chiefvalue for $159.99 last week, I think they screwed up late at night when they were updating the website at like 2AM the previous Friday and I got lucky, it was only listed that low for a couple of hours).

Anyway, it's rated 5-5-5-15 at DDR2 800, I've been running it at 4-4-4-13 at DDR2 890 @ 2.1V (that's +.3v, 445 FSB at 1:1 for a 3.15Ghz clock on my e6300) for about 5 days and I've gotten it too boot at DDR2 950 (475FSB), though it wasn't stable (I think my Antec 430W PSU is just doesn't enough juice). I've run ~10h of Dual Prime95.

I'm happy with it.

 

[caberguy]

I spent 10-15 minutes messing with it this morning. I reduced my CPU multiplier and now have the memory running at DDR2 1020 with 5-5-5-15 timings at 2.2V at a 4:5 ratio. System stable (I'm writing this) though I haven't run it through a torture test and probably won't because overall system performance is much lower. It might have more headroom, but this was just tinkering for a few minutes. I'd say not bad for one of the cheapest 2GB DDR2 800 kits on the market at the moment.

This is on a Gigabyte 965p-s3.