Corsair 4x1 or 2x2 gigs of ram

[Zman]

I am building a new rig and just cant seem to find the answers. The mother board is going to be a asus blitz formula and the processor is a Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6850.




CORSAIR Dominator 4GB(4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2
8500)

Or

CORSAIR XMS2 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

What is going to give me the best performance and over clocking ability?Which is better?

[ChaosMinionX]

Dominators hands down. I have a P5K Deluxe, and it runs 500x7 DDR2 1250 5-5-5-15 2.25-2.3v with my ram, and the controller handles it flawlessly.

But I clocked back since DDR2 1000 4-4-4-12 seemed to act about the same and its stable with less voltage.

And the doms still have some heardroom on them.

[Zman]

Thanks for the reply. Chaos
Anyone else want to chime in.

[Mike EFix]

I'm wondering the same thing. I want 4gb of ram but I don't which ones to get. I had 2 gb Corsair 8500 (1066) until one stick went bad now I'm down to just 1 gig. It's a painful running Vista on just 1 gig


The mainboard I'm using is the P5N32 with the 680i chipset

[Mike EFix]

I'm Thinking about going with these unless some can talk me out of it

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145176

Or maybe the Patriot stuff . . . Hell I don't know . . Crucial ?

[bachus_anonym]

I'm Thinking about going with these unless some can talk me out of it

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145176

Or maybe the Patriot stuff . . . Hell I don't know . . Crucial ?It sounds like a plan :) If you're interested, a while ago I posted some overclocking results in this thread (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=144935) as a response to another user's question regarding this 2x2GB kit.
:toast:

[Yellowbeard]

From what I have seen, generally the 680i based boards like 2 DIMMs much better than 4 and especially when OCing. So, the 2 x 2gb kit sounds like a good idea.

On a P35 based board, 4 DIMMs are good an OC well. And in this specific case, like Chaos said above, the PC8500 will allow much more OCing head room than the PC6400.

[Mike EFix]

Found a better deal here

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=85025-32

[Mike EFix]

4Gig $280.00 after MIR @ ZZF

That's respectable


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[zanzabar]

sorry to bring back and old topic but i was thinking of getting the 2 stick kit and wanted to know if rev 1.x or 5.x was better and what ics are posable i know that the 1.x is revE and im taking a set of that back from patriot since it cant do 800mhz (i have to jump the strap) so would i ave better luck with the micron revD or E with ur stuff


and how would the dominator fan change the wayt hat they run i wanted one since they looked cool but would it be needed for a mild oc like 450mhz core or is it just nice to have (i have a fan near them blowing over)

[Yellowbeard]

If you get the Micron versions they will be rev-E. AFAIK, we never used any rev-D 128mb ICs.

[zanzabar]

sorry for the misread thx for the info


and while searching i saw a blue beard and black beard on corsair forums as admins is there a global roving giant beard squad of corsair techs

[ThatGuy16]

From what I have seen, generally the 680i based boards like 2 DIMMs much better than 4 and especially when OCing. So, the 2 x 2gb kit sounds like a good idea.

On a P35 based board, 4 DIMMs are good an OC well. And in this specific case, like Chaos said above, the PC8500 will allow much more OCing head room than the PC6400.

To add on to this, i got 4x1gb (upgraded from 2x1gb) on my nforce 590 board (basicly the same as the 680 from what i have read just rebadged :shrug:)

Anyway, going from 2gb to 4gb lower my stable OC from 3.33ghz to 3.0. It wouldn't even post at 3.33 :down:

I suppose i would go for the 2x2gb :up:

[zanzabar]

u dont have multi phase dram voltage so u wont get as stable with 4 sticks