Synchronised with P4c FSB/memory frequencies: Whic

[JeanLuc]

Reading scottchen’s guide to overlcoking a P4, has encouraged me to sell my single stick of Crucial PC2700 33Mhz of ram on ebay and buy some PC3700 or PC4000 so I can run my overclocked P4 2.4c @ 3.0Ghz synchronised with the ram frequency for maximum performance. Also I wanted to make use of the duel channel technology on my MSI Neo2 865PE motherboard.

I have been shopping around and have found the following;

- OCZ 512MB (2x256MB) PC4000 Dual Channel Series £144.14

- Corsair 512MB DDR XMS3700PT TwinX (2x256MB) Platinum CAS3 £107.18

- Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3700PT TwinX (2x512MB) Platinum CAS3£198.19 (Budget limt)

Can anyone here recommend me what I should buy? I mostly us my computer for gamming and video encoding. So would I see the benefits form having 1gig or ram insted of 512Mb of Ram?

 

[Vapor]

I'd get the 1GB of RAM, especially since you are doing video encoding.

You'll probably be able to push it beyond 233Mhz anyway (240ish if I had to guess), which would give you about a 2.9GHz processor.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[Vapor]

He doesn't have the budget...but I fully agree with you, the faster the RAM the better for a 2.4C...he could go crazy with it (but I still have my guidelines for a minimum of 1GB RAM in any newer system [hence the recommendation of the PC3700], and 1GB of PC4400 is probably 300ish pounds).

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[Vapor]

I'd go for Geil...I kind of have a grudge against Kingston.

Maxtor disgraces the six letters that make Matrox.

 

[JeanLuc]

Trying to give me a heart attack or something LOL

Thanks for your help

 

[Oldcolepotatoes]

Yeh, don't take kingston, their single sided rams make a bad combo with 865 chipsets

 

[ytoledano]

Have you checked if you can run at 3:2 CPU:RAM mode and at 250 FSB? Your mobo should support it. Try it to see if it's stable, then invest in expensive RAM and run at synced mode.

Got a nice overclocked overvolted system to keep you warm at night? That's great. Guess I'll have to settle for a woman...

 

[Johanthegnarler]

Actually i think kingston is messed up with those msi boards.. and i see a lot of bad geil reviews.

p4 2.8 533fsb
intel mobo
1gb rdram pc 800
radeon9800 pro
120gb seagate s-ata