Ram Recommend?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:11 pm

Which RAM do you recommend to achieve the highest overclock?

I have a dfi sli dr with a 4800x2 looking to achieve a high overclock (watercooled)!

lookin at the Mushkin XP4000 Redline what u think?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:26 am

Crucial Ballistix

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:49 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Crucial Ballistix

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:00 am

Crucial is my number once choice anyways...and their Ballistix line is their high performance RAM.

Mushkin is great stuff, if you already got that. Corsair too.

But Crucial....their online selection guide...gets you their compatible part numbers guaranteed to work with your exact make/model of hardware. No middle man markup prices either. And great support.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:58 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Crucial is my number once choice anyways...and their Ballistix line is their high performance RAM.

Mushkin is great stuff, if you already got that. Corsair too.

But Crucial....their online selection guide...gets you their compatible part numbers guaranteed to work with your exact make/model of hardware. No middle man markup prices either. And great support.

Should really make a Crucial Ballistix sticky or ram sticky about all this. lol

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:04 pm

Mushkin Redline.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 5:09 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Crucial Ballistix

I love my 2 1gig sticks!! great OC power!

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:29 pm

what about kingston,is it POS?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:33 pm

rivas wrote:what about kingston,is it POS?

Kingston is like generic or value ram, their Hyper X stuff it more tuned, but the value bucket image is firmly stuck in my mind.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:53 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Kingston is like generic or value ram, their Hyper X stuff it more tuned, but the value bucket image is firmly stuck in my mind.

hmm i bought kingston ....if i knew ....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:27 am

rivas wrote:hmm i bought kingston ....if i knew ....

Ya I saw that, I dont think its harmful, its just my personal bias. Lots of people run it, and if i'm not mistaken its got a lifetime warranty.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:30 am

Theres nothing wrong with Kingston, it will do you just fine, like a nice beaitch

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:35 pm

wew if i saw this topic early I'd prolly changed my mine ballistix looked like a great choice.

I went with the Redline I'm stuck at a 237 FSB @ 2.8ghz Memory is running @ 237 mhz Divider 1/1 (200)
when I up it to 238 it crashes I'm pretty sure it has to do something with my ram settings.

Koolance Exos
4800 x2
Mushkin Redline xp4000 (1g 512x2)
dfi sli dr expert

Can any1 help me find the right ram Settings? looking to go 240 or 250 fsb
(current settings)

Dram 200 1/1
CPC: Enable
Cas Lat: auto
Ras to Cas: auto
Min Ras: auto
row precharge: auto
row cycle time: 7
row refresh: auto
row to row delay: 2
write recovery: 2
write to read: 2
read to write: 3
refresh period: 3120
write cas lat: auto
dram bank: disabled
Dqs Skew control: auto
Dqs Skew Value: 0
Ram dll speed: auto
Dram Data Drive Strength: level 4
Max Async Latency: Auto
Dram Response Time: Fast
Read Preamble: auto

Ram Voltage @ 3.41
Cpu Voltage @ 1.632

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:43 pm

3.4 volts!!! Is this doubling as a stove top!?

Have you tried running the ram at 2.9 or 3.0 volts? You could also use a memory divider and run it slowerso you can OC the chip more if thats ur goal. You'd lose coroful benchmark numbers but not alot of real world performance.

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:43 pm

lol this is the specification for the memory
http://mushkin.com/doc/products/memory_ ... asp?ID=196

I tried using a divider (180) it didn't help reach higher score it's gotta be something stupid I'm missing! It's DDR500 ram

YARDofSTUF wrote:3.4 volts!!! Is this doubling as a stove top!?

Have you tried running the ram at 2.9 or 3.0 volts? You could also use a memory divider and run it slowerso you can OC the chip more if thats ur goal. You'd lose coroful benchmark numbers but not alot of real world performance.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:58 pm

Thats insane voltage! I saw a review that had mushkin rnnign 3.0 and I thoguht that was high.

Don't know what to tell ya. Have you tried it at 2T?

I'll be RMA'ing my ram soon i think, memtest is picking up some errors on 1 stick.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:31 pm

3.4-3.6v is normal with redlines, they inhale voltage

Love em.