recommend some affordable DDr2 sticks that will do 900mhz on a Gigabyte DS3 board

[Duvie]

As topic states...

I need to replace my gskills....It is holding back my OC...I should be able to get 3.4ghz at least out of my E6600, but cant get the gskills stable past 3.1ghz and the cheapo patriot PC4200 looses its legs past 720...

This is all with only 1.375ghz (board undervolts to 1.36v) at 3.24ghz...dual prime stable for 22 hours and is running F@H stable for 3 days now with no EEUs

 

[cmdrdredd]

what model g.skill? the 2GBHZ is the one everyone is getting for overclocking.

 

[Gary Key]

Gigabyte memory link

This should help, still finding that the D9 based modules are hit and miss on the board at the higher FSBs rates (over 450). Some (GSkill) will do 460 and hit a wall, some (Geil) will do 1000 without issue. However, all required relaxed timings starting around 440 even though the memory was rated better.

 

[Marmion]

I've got Kingston Value Ram DDR2-667 Cas-5 running at DDR2-920 Cas-5 2.1v on my Gigabyte P965 S3 and E6300 @ 3.22Ghz if that helps?

Edit:

Just tried DDR2-920 Cas-4 2.2v
Going to see how long this lasts... Got to say, extremely good ram

Edit 2: Unfortunately 30secs of Prime was all I got. (At Cas-5 I primed it while I was at uni for 7 hours, good enough for me)

 

[MADMAX23]

It's nice to hear from you again Duvie, many have missed you...

I recommend you Geil's DDR2 value series, they come with an aluminium heatspreader, they are rated to run with only 1.8v (starting voltage) ,so you won't have any issues with your DS3, they are cheap and they overclcok very well...I'm still surprised of their Oc capabilities and their performance...

I suggest you pick up the DDR2 800 value series, they are rated to run at 5-5-5-18 with 1.8v. Testing them in my system has been really pleasant, with 2.1v I can have them running error free at DDR2 800 4-4-4-12....and they also can do DDR2 1000 and even higher with 2.25v at 5-5-5-15...

Haven't tested the timings and voltage supported for DDR2 900 or DDR2 850....but I will one of these days.

For me it's clear, Value Ram is the best bang for your buck.

I would also like to recommend you Corsair Value Ram but I haven't tested it yet...so I can't personally recommend them although I've seen people very happy with them...

Good luck!

 

[imported_Husky55]

Hi Duvie,

I have often wondered what happened to you and Zebo and Mark who were great contributors to this forum during the AMD Athlon 64 single and dual core days. I was really hoping to benefit from your experience with the Core 2 Duo series.

Price of memory has gone through the roof but I recall that A-Data DDR2 are fairly priced and performed reasonably well. Kingston has also done well lately.

Peace

 

[davidos]

Originally posted by: Gary Key
Gigabyte memory link

This should help, still finding that the D9 based modules are hit and miss on the board at the higher FSBs rates (over 450). Some (GSkill) will do 460 and hit a wall, some (Geil) will do 1000 without issue. However, all required relaxed timings starting around 440 even though the memory was rated better.

Gary,
What timings would you recommend for over 440?

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: Gary Key
Gigabyte memory link

This should help, still finding that the D9 based modules are hit and miss on the board at the higher FSBs rates (over 450). Some (GSkill) will do 460 and hit a wall, some (Geil) will do 1000 without issue. However, all required relaxed timings starting around 440 even though the memory was rated better.

problem is Gary I have to do relaxed timings to even get passed 340 with the Gskills....I have patriot in this system and my friends system and both are doing 680-720ddr with 2-2.1v...It is sad the more expensive stuff sucks arse...

 

[imported_Buckster]

don't get Corsair XMS 6400 C5 - I've been very disappointed - 835-840 was the best they would overclock to - even at 5-6-6-18 !

Mark.

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: Gary Key
Gigabyte memory link

This should help, still finding that the D9 based modules are hit and miss on the board at the higher FSBs rates (over 450). Some (GSkill) will do 460 and hit a wall, some (Geil) will do 1000 without issue. However, all required relaxed timings starting around 440 even though the memory was rated better.

All he needs is 380~400FSB. Unless the board is one of those with 'FSB Blackhole', in which case 420~440FSB would suffice.

Edit: Wait, my bad. The thread title says he's looking for DDR2-900?

 

[lopri]

nvm (I don't think there are such things as "affordable DDR2" at this time)

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: lopri
nvm (I don't think there are such things as "affordable DDR2" at this time)

What he said....

 

[Polish3d]

Check out teamgroup's stuff, mine do DDR1000+, but I prefer Cas 4 DDR 800 ATM

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Husky55
Hi Duvie,

I have often wondered what happened to you and Zebo and Mark who were great contributors to this forum during the AMD Athlon 64 single and dual core days. I was really hoping to benefit from your experience with the Core 2 Duo series.

Price of memory has gone through the roof but I recall that A-Data DDR2 are fairly priced and performed reasonably well. Kingston has also done well lately.

Peace

I have been around and repling at times. Since I don't have a C2D (yet) I don't have that much to contribute though, so I read, and reply when I can.

 

[MADMAX23]

Duvie, I have already tested my GEIL Value series DDR2 800 sticks (5-5-5-18 1.8v stock) @ DDR2 900.
I'm really excited about their potential...check it out.

Test method: 1 hour through Memtest86+ 1.65, then 2 hours under test 6 (Moving inversions 32bit pattern) because it is the toughest test for DDR2. After that, 6 hours under ORTHOS blend test...0 errors of course.

Note: CPU was running at 3.6Ghz (100% stable, more than 12 hours under Orthos small FFts without failure until stopped), memory 900Mhz, 1:1 (450x8).

Conclusion: These sticks can run at DDR2 900 with timings: 4-4-4-12 and a vdimm of 2.15v...it is not that much...

In Sisoft Sandra 2007 memory bandwidth test I get 7500Mb/s with these timings....

Hope this helps....