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Lonely Raven
03-28-03, 10:15 AM
Ok, first off, if you don't know me, I'm not a newb.

Secondly, I'm hoping only people with solid knowledge and
experience answer this, because it's going to effect my
purchasing decision.

Thirdly, THANK YOU, for reading, and in advance, thank you for
your thoughts and opinions. Here is my question:

Setup:

Ok, I have a Shuttle SN42G2 nForce2 SFF.

No voltage or multiplier adjustments, so I'm limited to the BEST
overclocking CPU and DDR, at *STOCK* voltages. From what
I'm reading the new 1700+ that run at 1.5 volt are the best
chip for me, so now I just need the BEST memory, with the
LOWEST Latency, at STOCK voltage.

I have on hand:

XMS-3500 (But it blows without voltage bumps and won't run
at anything faster then 6-3-3 at 176FSB). <--On this system
without voltage bumps--<<

Kingston PC-2700 Value RAM (as names states, it's not very
good--It runs at specked and nothing more)

Kingston Hyper-X PC-2700 runs at 186FSB 5-2-2-2 and is kicking
everything elses arse...pretty good for a $75 512MB stick!!!

I also have on order some Matched 256 XMS-3200LL and one
phat stick of 512MB XMS-3200LL but I won't see them till next
week, so I don't know how they will fair in this system.

Can anyone recommend some guaranteed KILLER memory with
LOW LATENCY at stock 2.5volts that I haven't thought of?
I'd like to stay UNDER $100 for a 512MB stick or matched pair
of 265MB sticks, but I'll bend a little if it will help get me closer
to 200FSB!

Any and all help is GREATLY apprecaited!

sirtoby
03-28-03, 11:02 AM
Given that the board actually gives out the correct voltage, I'd probably go with Kingston HyperX..

I believe Corsair is recommended to run at a slightly higher voltage than stock, so I would leave that out of the question, although it's great ram.

The Samsung probably doesn't have really low latency by default, although it's great ram also.

So with that said, I'd probably go with the Kingston HyperX.. should run fine at that voltage, good timings, and low price. Seems as a nice combination to me.

NeverSleeps
03-28-03, 12:01 PM
From my experience with 3200LL (2 days), I can run memtest86 @ 200Mhz 6-2-2-2 @ stock on my abit NF7-S nforce2 board, lowest VDIMM through BIOS is 2.6 and the board overvolt a bit. Based on MBM5 voltage shows as 2.66 VDIMM.
Will update as I test more . . .

Lonely Raven
03-28-03, 12:06 PM
Thanx for the info...sounds like my 3200LL might not cut it
either. I think maybe this $75 stick of Hyper-X is just going to
kick Corsairs Arse! Yah! LOL