I'll be overclocking a C2D E4500 on a gigabyte P35-DS3L, was originally going to go after the value ram (Gskill, adata etc). However now I've seen a lot of people standing firmly by crucial ballistix, kingston hyperx, and corsair xms2's. Any recommendations? Are all 3 pretty equivalent?
Crucial Ballistix are the best quality of those 3. I would avoid Corsair entirely, as they tend to use low quality memory ICs and Kingston tends to be overpriced. However, your CPU will most likely max out before the ram with any DDR2-800.