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need help with ASUS P5K E8400 settings voltages

dragonstongue

dragonstongue

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First off this is a mobo/mem/oc thingy so if not right place sorry not meaning to rile anyone.

Hello all I was wondering if you would be able to help me pick best choice for a 4gb kit
I have an ASUS P5K(vanilla) mobo bios 0704 with E8400CPU cooled by TT dual heatpipe 92mm fan was made to cool prescott. my case CM cent 590 with 2 kaze 89 cfm 2 110 cfm jyuni and 1 54 cfm 80mm as well as the 2 stickj ones with it( so cooling seems sufficent :)

Anyway I am currently using Corsair XMS2 6400 can run topped out 989mhz on ram best yet cpu and ram was 3.95 and 870 or so with 5,4,4,8 timings and 1.95v
I need or looking for a nice kit that will be fully compatible with my mobo and will allow me to oc to a nice 4ghz or so(stable can clock to 4.25 but not stable for long 4ghz orthos, occt fail no matter voltage on cpu or ram or nb) and as side note my board or cpu not greatest? as need to bump 2 bumps to 3.6 cpu but no bumps to 3.49 or so 3.95 need a touch over 1.3 to stable it of course vdroop( i think is called) is pretty bad on this board
$78.05 G.SKILL F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1000 CL55515 avg oc 1030
$83.42 G.SKILL F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL55515 oc 1085
$87.00 OCZ DDR2 4GB OCZ2P10004GK PC2-8000 4GB Platinum dual oc to about 1076
$90.96 Mushkin XP PC2-8000 Redline 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1000 CL55512 oc 1080
$103.62 Mushkin Ascent PC2-8000 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1000 CL55512 oc about 1100
$117.90 OCZ 4GB OCZ2RPR10664GK 2x2gb PC2-8500 55518 oc 1100 or so
$123.20 G.SKILL F2-8800CL5Q-4GBPI PC2-8800 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1100 CL55515 oc to 1175 1250 high v
$136.00 Mushkin Ascent PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066 CL55515 1175 or so @2.1v
$138.99 OCZ DDR2 PC2-9600 Flex II 1150MHz 55518 2x2GB will hit high 1200 with about 2.25
$147.05 Corsair TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF 2X2GB PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 CL55515 1150

Any of these I guess or other suggestions as well as good settings for my board would be greatly appreciated as well I live in canada so prices different then american :)
and maybe a pic of how to vdroop/mod P5K vanilla

Oh yeh forgot. Im not rich and only trying to get a 4gb kit that will oc nice, stay cool/lower voltages to attain said oc, and not cost to much.

Anyway thank you all for help.
 
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I say just go with the cheap stuff. That 4GB kit of G.Skill DDR2-1000 I've seen suggested time and time again on this forum. The 5-5-5-15 timings aren't exceptionally tight but you really won't see a huge difference. And they can't be beaten for the price. I have a set in my P5Q Pro with an E8400 E0 stepping overclocked to 4.0GHz. Can't recall the voltage offhand. Something like 1.36 VDrooped to 1.34V. But your mileage may vary. And my temperatures are nice and low. Processor idles around 38C.
 
everybody uses the g.skill ddr2 1000 pq. it goes for around $40 or $50 now. but they have several great kits, the pq 1066, and the pi 1000 and pi 1066 are newer kits. any of them are below about $75 and all are terrific. i havent used corsair or mushkin since the sdr days.
 
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