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Which affordable memory for mild overclocking?

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Tullphan

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I have a P4 2.53 on an Albatron PX845PEV motherboard.
I'd like to get it up around 3 ghz (have a AX-478 on it).
I'm kinda on a budget & am looking for 512 mb stick.
Is Mwave's brand any good? Newegg is sold out of Samsung. Corsair is about $50 out of my league. What are some other good brands that offer a legitimate warranty?
 
I bought a stick of the Kingston 2700 from Newegg and its doing just fine on my system. Ive got a P4 2.4 at 2.7 and the memory is set to run a 375 with its
default cas settings. Works rock solid. Had it running 2 2 2 5 solid at 300. I have yet to play around with lowering cas settings at 375 and I also need to try
400 yet. Not to bad for a stick thats down to around $80 now. It was a tad over $100 when I bought it 10 days ago 🙁
 
Just an example of what you would need..

2.53 @ 3.0 Ghz = 157 FSB
1:1 mem ratio = DDR315 (need DDR333 PC2700 ram)
4:5 ratio = DDR392 (need DDR400 PC3200 ram)
3:4 ratio = DDR418 (Need good DDR400 PC3200 or PC3500 ram)
 
Ok...the Corsair XMS PC3200...Platinum heat spreaders or non-platinum @ the same price? Does it really make a difference?
 
the current production Samsung PC2700 is probably going to be slightly too slow for what you want. the Samsung PC3200 should be fine, however, and it isn't terribly expensive.
 
Originally posted by: touchmyichi
Paco, Kingston Hyper X not oc'ing well. Are you kidding? lol
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I just remember reading somewhere that kingston ram dun oc very well. That was their basic ram not the hyper x stuff.

Dun beat on the newb 😀
 
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