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Asus p5b delux with OC DDR2-800 or DDR2 1066?

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I am going to buy Asus P5B delux and E6400 CPU
I wanted to buy Kingston® HyperX® PC2-8500 or Corsair's XMS2
And I wanted to use OC to push CPU to 3.4Ghz

Now there is a confusion in selecting the memory
I saw many places that threre is no much performance difference in
DDR2-800 DDR2-1066 onwords.
and DDR2-1066 looks very costly

So my question is if am going to buy DDR2-800 then can I achive same performance improments (as written in several other forms and threads) in all aspects except memory with out pushing memory clock beyond 800?

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I think there are already many post on this one.

I am going to buy Asus P5B delux and E6400 CPU
I wanted to buy Kingston® HyperX® PC2-8500 or Corsair's XMS2
And I wanted to use OC to push CPU to 3.4Ghz

Now there is a confusion in selecting the memory
I saw many places that threre is no much performance difference in
DDR2-800 DDR2-1066 onwords.
and DDR2-1066 looks very costly

So my question is if am going to buy DDR2-800 then can I achive same performance improments (as written in several other forms and threads) in all aspects except memory with out pushing memory clock beyond 800?




Honestly I think the best ram out there for this board is the crucial ballistix ddr2 667 memory. Why you ask? Because I have the Asus P5b delux paired up with 4 gigs of the now non existent limited edition 10yr anniversary crucial memory rated at ddr2 667 3 3 3 12. I did my research and discovered that it is exactly the same ram as the ballistix with the same speed and timings and right down to the micro's being used.

For what ever reason on newegg.com the 10yr anniversury crucial got outstanding ratings and the ballistix that im about to link you too has only 3 people rating it that obviously do not know a damn thing about tweaking memory.

I currently have my ram running 100% stable at an outstanding 1000mhz ddr2 with 4 4 4 5 timings at just 2.25v! That is the same speed and better in many cases than some of the other over priced stuff running at the same speeds. When this stuff was still on newegg everyone was getting similar and sometimes even better results.

A friend of mine got robbed and paid over $400 for the Gskill memory rated at ddr2 1000 4 4 4 5, he nearly cried when he saw all 4 gigs of mine which only cost me at the time $440 in total running at the same speeds as his :lol: 


Go with the ballistix since it is the exact same ram you should expect similar results while saving a ton of money!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1682...
Anonymous
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According to Dario and the ramlist, the 10th anniversary is handpicked.

So you will either not reach as high of an OC or as tight timmings but yeah the performance should be similar but not as uniform.

I was looking at this Ballistix and it is probably one of the better deal right now.
These are what I got, they were 15$ cheaper though. Don't let the CL5 fool you =).

@the op: The Ballistix will take you to 3.4 easily, in fact they should be good for ~4ghz
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