what kind of memory?

[jyve56]

I ve decided to build my first pc and have settled on the dfi lanparty for the motherboard and a 2500+ barton that will be overclocked. what would be the best memory to match with this and what should the settings be? I want 1G of memory.

 

[ImmortalZ]

PC3200 would be the choice. Corsair TwinX1024-3200LL, Kinston HyperX, OCZ, etc etc are available. Try to get identical or matched pairs.

 

[tjchino]

do you feel that the high end corsair, kingston, mushkin, ocz are more or less all comparable. or is there one that has greater performance and/or greater compatibility with mobo's?

 

[Prof133]

For intense overclocking with the nForce2 chipset I'd suggest quality DIMMs built with Winbond Rev B chips: Mushkin PC3500 Level II Black or OCZ EL PC3500 Platinum Limited Edition, for example.

 

[Prof133]

Set memory timings to 2-2-2-11.

 

[Prof133]

BTW, all those brand said above can do at least 2-2-2-5, even my TwinMOS DDR400 can do 2-2-2-6 when at 200Mhz

A lot of nForce2 overclockers are reporting higher performance by setting Cycle Time (Tras) to 11 - other timings at 2. There's some example memory timings in <A HREF="http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9924&perpage=25&pagenumber=1" target="_new">this thread</A>.

 

[Prof133]

Is that using it on a Corsair or OCZ or Mushkin LevelII?

Corsair XMS PC3500 C2, Mushkin Level II Black and the OCZ PC3500 EL Platinum Limited Edition modules all contain Winbond Rev B chips.

 

[Prof133]

You may be interested in <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=552354#552354" target="_new">this thread</A>.