Which memory of these is good for me?

[Kyosuke]

First off, here's the OCZ

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227118

and now here's the G.Skill

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231114

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I am pretty torn. I think the OCZ would probably do great. I have a P5N-E I'm going to reveive with a E6400. I am only planning on OCing it to about 2.4 - 2.6ghz. I might go up to 3.0 - 3.2 but not too sure as I'm a novice when it comes to OCing. I don't see a need to go that high, but as an option 3ghz sounds nice.

From reading the reviews the OCZ seems to OC pretty damn good and overclocks well for 667 RAM.
The G.skill ends up being $60 more in the end b/c of the rebate on the OCZ, but it is DDR2800 vs. the 667 of the OCZ, so can jump up a bit higher on it's OC.

I truthfully don't know if that makes that much of a difference and I am very torn on what to go with. Both seem to be great sets of memory, so it's hard.

Please Help and advise!

 

[mattschaller]

I would go with the G.Skill. It's DDR2-800, which means you can reach 3.0 - 3.2 GHz with an E6400 (at 400MHz bus speeds... 8*400). without overclocking the memory any. Plus it has lower timings than the OCZ. If you go with the OCZ with lower timings than the G.Skill then you shouldn't have any problems at 2.4 - 2.6 GHz but any further and you may have to loosen the timings a bit which will cause a hit in memory bandwidth.

Hope that helps.

 

[Kyosuke]

Originally posted by: mattschaller
I would go with the G.Skill. It's DDR2-800, which means you can reach 3.0 - 3.2 GHz with an E6400 (at 400MHz bus speeds... 8*400). without overclocking the memory any. Plus it has lower timings than the OCZ. If you go with the OCZ with lower timings than the G.Skill then you shouldn't have any problems at 2.4 - 2.6 GHz but any further and you may have to loosen the timings a bit which will cause a hit in memory bandwidth.

Hope that helps.

Oh, so what you're saying is with the OCZ (4-4-4-12) @ 667, I may have to adjust those to 5-5-5-12 for instance to get the CPU to OC properly/stability, etc...

but with the G.Skill already @ 800, I wouldn't have to OC the memory and just use the multiplier with the standard timings (or better timings for underclocking the memory?).??

Atleast that's how I understand what you're saying.

 

[mattschaller]

Yes, you're understanding it correctly. Depending on what motherboard you're going to run, you may be able to set different FSB:memory ratio speeds, instead of the standard 1:1. At 1:1, memory is twice the FSB. It is the optimal ratio to run your memory at; I think I've read that any other ratio will cause you to take a performance hit in memory but you would be able to run your memory at its rated speed whilst upping the FSB.