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Advice before I drop 500 on some more memory!

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klepp1214

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The Scenario - I have 4x1gb sticks of some gskill 6400, cheap stuff but it fares ok if I only use 2 sticks. I usually can get-er stable with mild timings @ 450 fsb or so. Once I stick in the other 2 sticks, I have to work to get it stable @ 430fsb with the same timings.

Ive heard it is harder to OC with 4 sticks than 2. Some have said fact, others have said fiction. regardless, if I buy some quality pc8000 is it a safe bet that I'll be able to get those numbers up quite a bit?

I mean, if i know my chip is capable of a hell of alot more, then better ram ought to allow my bus up higher with both 2 and 4 sticks no?

Or I could just be getting 1 crappy stick, cause your only as good as your slowest peice of ram right? Either that is my issue, or the 4 stick is harder than 2 clause is in full effect. Regardless im trying to remedy the situation by buying some better ram.

Good idea or nay?
have some cash burning a hole persay, and i know the previous owner of my chip had it running @ nearly 3.5 on air stable. I cant muster anything higher than 3.0 stable. However he was using better ram, and only 2 sticks as opposed to 4.

Its a Gigabyte 965 s3 with the newest bios.
Ive got 4 1 gig sticks of the bnq gskill pc6400.
an E6300 @ 430 fsb with timings set to 5 5 5 15. Anything else timing wise or fsb wise will fail orthos. My temps under orthos load is 52c or so. Entire box is watercooled.

Now if i remove 2 sticks of ram, I can get 450 fsb or so stable. tinkering ive even booted close to 500fsb into windows. At the moment switching boards isnt really an option, ive got everythign watercooled into a midtower which is a super tight fit so R&R'ing it is outta the question, if ram wont fix it ill leave it as it is!

The memory im looking into getting is the crucial ballistix the pc8000 stuff.

What do we think as far as it making the box more overclockable? As far as performance gains etc?

By the way not that it matters a TON but is the orange on the ballistix sticks flourescent? (cold cathodes ftw!)
 
to the last question, no. would be cool though

now.. you'll probably see a gain of mhz on the cpu.. however, is it really worth $500? for that much money, you can just get a faster cpu with a higher stock multiplier and sell the old one. ;)
 
Im not really after the mhz persay, I still have another 500 mhz window on my cpu, problem is the damn fsb! WTB more and that ram is killin me!
 
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