Suggestions for Ram for a E6600?

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I tried to get an answer from my other thread, however got no responses. So I'll try one more time here.

I was wondering if its possible to buy ram that will be good for stock speeds and have potential of OCing? It seems that I will be getting a E6600 with a Asus P5W DH Deluxe board. Anything particular anyone could recommend me?
 
Any decent branded DDR2-667/800 RAM will do. Corsair, Crucial and Kingston are good choices. If money is no object get the lower latency RAM. If you don't want to spend a lot look at the value RAM options. Most of it overclocks pretty well. If you want to overclock past 3 GHz I would recommend getting DDR2-800 or better.
 
No need to.

It also runs beautifully @ 667 3-3-3 or 800 4-4-4.

You'll have a hard time finding cheaper stuff than that with those timings.

And those kits are D9s...pretty much the best chips out there right now.
 
Hmmm have a link to any reviews or anything? Kinda skeptical in ordering something that I haven't heard of before.
 
thanks for the links, I've never done any type of OCing before so this is all new to me.
 
DDR2 800MHz 4-4-4 has more bandwith the DDR2 667 3-3-3. i would suggest fhe former, and the corsair link posted, over the DDR2 667 posted.

the only problem is. Intels 975X doesnt officiall support DDR2 800. some bios tinkering may be necessary.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
DDR2 800MHz 4-4-4 has more bandwith the DDR2 667 3-3-3. i would suggest fhe former, and the corsair link posted, over the DDR2 667 posted.

the only problem is. Intels 975X doesnt officiall support DDR2 800. some bios tinkering may be necessary.
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Okay.

First off, the OP wants an Asus P5W DH mobo, not an Intel mobo.
And yes, that mobo has an option for DDR2-800 even if one is merely running stock.
Doesn't take any more tinkering to work than setting the divider/timings & vdimm in the bios, same as should be done with any RAM.
Even if a mobo didn't have "support" for DDR2-800, you could still run 1:1 overclocked to achieve that, as that's really what any RAM over DDR2-533 is designed for.

BTW, the reason why i mention the Team Group DDR2-667 kit as well as the DDR2-800 kit is that they are exactly the same RAM!
Just binned differently.
The 667 3-3-3 can run @ 800 4-4-4, just like the 800 4-4-4 can run 667 3-3-3.

And both can generally hit 500 (DDR2-1000) speeds very easily when timings are loosened to 5-5-5
 
sardonic.n7 said:
BTW, the reason why i mention the Team Group DDR2-667 kit as well as the DDR2-800 kit is that they are exactly the same RAM!
Just binned differently.
The 667 3-3-3 can run @ 800 4-4-4, just like the 800 4-4-4 can run 667 3-3-3.

And both can generally hit 500 (DDR2-1000) speeds very easily when timings are loosened to 5-5-5
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But with the rebate the Corsair stuff is cheaper. So, I'd save some cash and get the Corsair memory.
 
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