will Dual channel 256 x 4 ocz work for overclockin

[lagger]

I have an asus p4c800-e deluxe and have to send back 2 sticks (2x256) of OCZ ddr500 (pc4000) rev 2 gold dual channel ram as it seems to be defective. I had been running this OC'd from 2.4 ghz to 3.2ghz (265x4 fsb) but a few months ago it began to be very unstable and I have since found out that the ram is defective. OCZ has agreed to take the 2 sticks back and replace them but I cannot be without my system for 2 weeks or so while the exchange occurs. I am thinking of getting 2 more sticks of the same from newegg before I return the ram I have and when I get the replacements, run the full GB of ram as a 4x 256 dual channel solution. Any opinions on whether this will still be as overclockable as just 2 sticks ? If not what issues can I expect?

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[Crashman]

The RAM is only rated for 250MHz (DDR500), the extra 15MHz could push it over the edge of stability. And having 4 sticks may increase timing issues and affect how far you can overclock. Of course Anandtech would point out that the 875P chipset works better with more banks filled.

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[lagger]

before I had the mem issues I have recently been experiencing I was running rock solid for many months at 265 x 4 .. it is the timing issues that I seemed to recall hearing about last year when I bought the mobo ... thanx for the input.. I can live with a .6 ghz OC ok as the xtra 512 of ram will help with performance overall I want to OC though for the added bandwidth

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[KevlarCoatedTent]

Crashman Im going to buy a nForce4 motherboard (probably the gigabyte one) and im going to use 2* 512mb sticks of Twinmos DD500 but later on i will want to upgrade to 2GB of ram (4*512MB sticks) would that work ok or should i try andf go 1GB sticks instead

 

[Crashman]

If you REALLY think you'll NEED 2GB of memory you might consider 2 1GB sticks.

I'm not certain how things will go with the nForce4, but previous A64 chipsets have had problems with 4 modules, many boards force the speed down to DDR333 when using too many banks.

On the other hand, 1GB modules have to live with looser timings.

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[Crashman]

I think it's because the larger a module is, the more rows it has, the longer it takes to access all those rows.

Think of memory as a spreadsheet and you're the one reading it It takes a lot longer to visually scan a spreadsheet that's 128 rows long than 64 rows.

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[Pavelow]

Nice analogy.

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