RAM and OCing a cpu.

[fcdwn777]

Hola everyone. I had planned on overclocking for the first time but it seems that I may have overlooked something. I have a wolfdale E6500 and thought that I had everything I needed for OCing, heatsink, good mobo, good case with lots of air flow and case fans, good psu, but when talking to my friend about it he brought up something I had not thought about. He said that I need good ram to overclock my cpu. Now, I have 4gigs of ram, but in all honesty, I dont know what brand it is or anything about it. All I knoww is my comp came with 2 gigs and a friend of mine gave me a 2 gig stick he had so my comp would run quicker, and I did notive a difference, but I dont know if the Ram is "good" or how it will effect my overclocking. I am hoping someone here can give me a quick rundown of why I need "good" ram for overclocking, and what I should perahaps be looking for. If it makes any difference the gigabyte mobo I am buying only supports ddr2.

 

[fcdwn777]

I was thinking about putting this memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122&cm_re=ddr2-_-20-231-122-_-Product
Into this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128380&cm_re=gigabyte_775-_-13-128-380-_-Product
since I am sure it is better then the no name 2 gig stick I have in atm, and I would assume its better for overclocking, but I dont know how overclocking affects ram so I dont want to make the ram purchase just yet.

 

[jsc]

The E6500 has a 266 MHz FSB. If you have RAM that will run at 333 MHz (DDR2-667), that will take you to 3.66 GHz.

If you have any kind of decent DDR2-800 RAM, you can get a pretty good overclock with your processor.

The overclocking demands on the RAM are much less that they would be than if you were using an E8X00.

What kind of motherboard?

 

[fcdwn777]

The E6500 has a 266 MHz FSB. If you have RAM that will run at 333 MHz (DDR2-667), that will take you to 3.66 GHz.

If you have any kind of decent DDR2-800 RAM, you can get a pretty good overclock with your processor.

The overclocking demands on the RAM are much less that they would be than if you were using an E8X00.

What kind of motherboard?

I linked the mobo in the post above yours along with the ram I was thinking about. I will link again just in case.

mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128380&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-RSSDailyDeals-_-na-_-na&AID=10521304&PID=3463938&SID=

Possible Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231166&cm_re=ram_ddr2-_-20-231-166-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227289&cm_re=ram_ddr2-_-20-227-289-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122&cm_re=ram_ddr2-_-20-231-122-_-Product