This Ram with THIS mobo? (667 or 800?)

[adrenalin]

I Plan to get a
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard
and a e6600

and maybe get one of these rams

Corsair XM2 2gb 667 $203
or
OCZ XTC 2gb 800 $240

which one should i buy and which one will work with the mobo??

 

[adrenalin]

yeh, i am going to oc with the e6600.
but isaw this review that 800 doesn't actually work better than the 600

and if it does, only by like a ~4-6%

 

[adrenalin]

Okay, got it.

Also, I heard that the mobo only takes 1.9v memory before bios change or something.

so will that OCZ XTC GOLD ram work for SURE??

 

[306maxi]

Okay, got it.

Also, I heard that the mobo only takes 1.9v memory before bios change or something.

so will that OCZ XTC GOLD ram work for SURE??

OCZ memory is having a lot of incompatability errors with Conroe mobo's at the moment so I'd say no just to be safe.

 

[Vile]

Okay, got it.

Also, I heard that the mobo only takes 1.9v memory before bios change or something.

so will that OCZ XTC GOLD ram work for SURE??

OCZ memory is having a lot of incompatability errors with Conroe mobo's at the moment so I'd say no just to be safe.

I second that. I'd choose Corsair

 

[weilin]

I got that board, and i have OCZ and it works fine (for now.. 2 days into testing the thing no overclock yet...). BUT, i got the OCZ 667 memory not 800. However, i must say getting the thing to post with my ocz ram was quite a trick. I'm lucky because i had access to a office full of pcs of all different makes and models (work as IT) and was able to get some cheapo DDR2 ram and a P4 2.8ghz cpu (So thats what dells are for....) to post and flash bios first. the bios version F4 works perfectly, i havent had a problem with it yet. I won't be doing much testing on this pc until after i get my hard drive (currently runnin windows on a older 80gb hd.. have a 120 commin in the mail). All i got to say is, be ready to fight with it.

 

[swifty_morgan]

"As long as you have low latency memory, DDR2-667 wil perform just as well as DDR2-800. Core 2 duo's front side buss runs at 1066, but it's only 64 bits wide, delivering 8.53bps of bandwidth to the cpu. Core 2 duo's memory subsystem is 128 bits wide, and DDR2-667 can deliver 10.67gbps 0f bandwidth, meaning that if the fsb is faster than 1333mhz, the cpu can't use any more memory". ......... hmmmm...... ????
Let ya know where I read that when I can remember.

 

[weilin]

but ddr2 667 could potentially hinder overclock over 333mhz fsb.. i hear u can get these suckers to 400+... i took the 667 because the ram was cheap and had a rebate..