Favorite flavor of RAM for P4C800 Deluxe?

Trying to recover from a very unhappy experience with Corsair TwinX PC3200LL RAM. (Problem was a bad DIMM)

What's your favorite DDR RAM for stability on the P4C800? I saw Crucial recommended for the P4P800 MB, but it is not on the Asus Qualified Vendor List.

The processor is a P4 3.0c, I like hyperthreading, and I want a total of 1 Gb RAM installed. I don't plan to OC, the system should be ripping fast, if I can get it to run in a stable configuration. The machine's purpose in life is to do video editing/rendering, and to play games. It's running Win XP Pro, has a Radeon 9800 Pro video card and an Audigy 2 Platinum sound card. A Maxtor 120 GB IDE drive is for the OS and most software, a RAID-0 array with a couple of Seagates will be for video data and games.

Alles klar? Hope you've had some good experiences and we can develop a consensus.

Cheers,
Peyton

I got my machine working just fine by doing an ultimate backing off on the RAM timings. I installed a couple sticks of Corsair PC2700, and it goes like grease.

I'll continue to monitor boards like this one, particularly after ASUS releases another update to their BIOS. I'll probably replace my PC2700 with something perkier in a few months. Until then, my machine is "pretty dog-gone fast." With quite a lot of effort and tweaking, it might be "really, *really* fast," but I'm happy for now. It renders video 2 1/2 times as fast as the previous computer, and I can play IL2 Forgotten Battles with all the graphics set to Excellent at 1200-something by 900-something resolution.

Cheers and beers,
Peyton

If you're not overclocking then Kingston in this case would be the best, if you're planning to overclock past the rated speed then OCZ is pro at that, Corsair is also really good, I personally don't buy HyperX ram anymore because they were known to be able to overclock at low-latency, now all their ram run at crappy timings 3-4-4-8 and they all overclock like crap. So if you're planning for 3700 and over, Kingston's crap.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

Most of Geil's rams requires at least 2.85Vdimm to run so on the p4p800 that's the max there's no way you can go higher, however if you have Epox mobo, Geil's warrenty covers up to 3.1vdimm so Epox allows all the way up to 3.3.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Gold 2x256 3700EL memory @ 256mhz 2.5-3-3-7 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

I was planning to OC a bit. and I have been unable to find OCZ ram kit of 1 gig. Any good places to find that kit?

"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots"

I bought 2 x 512 PC3500 HyperX for my IS7 Mobo. With 2.4C OC to 3.0.

Ya I like HyperX priced better than Corsair. All I changed was the fsb to 250 on Abit IS7 mobo. That gave me 3.0 OC.

I bought 2 sticks 512 Set Dram Ratio to 5:4 on IS7.

I've been looking at the p4-800e also anyone with experience using winbond bh-5 based chips ?? I have heard that the bh-5 chips are better for OC than the ch-5, any thoughts or anyone try these yet I see they are still available at <A HREF="http://www.hardcorecooling.us/product.asp?3=296" target="_new">Hardcore cooling </A>for a fairly steep price



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