What memory should i buy o.O

maj0r_pawnage · Post by **maj0r_pawnage** » Sat May 26, 2007 10:56 pm

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do ... id=RAM.835

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do ... id=RAM.812

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do ... id=RAM.812

any other suggestions for a 2gb kit under 300CAD would be nice :D

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:10 am

trick question! Both are the same kit!

maj0r_pawnage · Post by **maj0r_pawnage** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:07 am

whoops lol

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:14 am

I'd go for the PC6400 kit, it will work well with your board when running 1:1.

maj0r_pawnage · Post by **maj0r_pawnage** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:36 am

interesting, how so?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:45 am

maj0r_pawnage wrote:interesting, how so?

The 975X board doesn't do much over 400MHz... on average, so if your running 1:1 then the ram will be somewhere between 800 and 900MHz.
Most, if not all PC6400 kits can do that!
If you got the PC1066 kit, your board would have to run a FSB of over 500MHz and the 975X chipset can't do that without a few voltage mods.
Don't bother running anything else than 1:1 with a lower end C2D as your need some very fast ram and the performance increase is negligible...

maj0r_pawnage · Post by **maj0r_pawnage** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:08 pm

so the new ram wont get me more than 140mhz? i had it running at 400fsb with my 5400 kit so shouldnt i be able to get atleast 3GHz with the dominators?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:21 pm

You'll need to hit ~429MHz fsb to hit 3GHz, that's also about the max the 975X chipset does too! (Some do more, but afaik not much more)

maj0r_pawnage · Post by **maj0r_pawnage** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:25 pm

whats the limiting factor on the 975x boards?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:29 pm

maj0r_pawnage wrote:whats the limiting factor on the 975x boards?

The 975X chipset

JohntechUPi · Post by **JohntechUPi** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:43 pm

I have tested a lot of I975 and I965 MB's and all of them top out about 900-980 MHz for I975 and 940-1030 for I965 with out over volting the chipset and memory, you also need to choose a MB that gives you options to over clock like ABit, ASUS, MSI, or Giga-Byte or the Intel Bad Axe 2 only.