Overclocking Ram?

n3xu5

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alright, lay it on me, which ram is gonna give me a better chance at overclocking higher with a 2500+ barton and a nf7-s rev2 mobo? I was gonna go for mushkin but man my budget justgot wacked...

I'm thinking buffalo, maybe even Kingston Hyper X. Whats the nf7-s supprt up to? pc3700? gonna be 1 gb of ram total in the end. Oh and i know BH-5 is the way to go

Also gimme some linkies maybe from newegg or where ever for the "better buys" thx..

 

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I'll qualify this by saying I'm an Intel guy, but I don't believe AMD systems can get a substantial boost from anything over PC3200. In fact, I don't know how far over 200 MHz FSB they are good for - that is definitely something to look at.

The NF-7 supports up to PC3200 (DDR400). Get some bh5 with good latencies, at least PC3200, and you can't go wrong.

 

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Anyone else know anything about KHX or buffalo? i might be able to muster out $280 for the Mushkin Level 2 pc3200 i was thinking about originally, but if i spent less than $200 it would really help my budget.

BTW i dont know which buffalo on newegg.com is the "right type"

 

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take the /WB.
some guys reported BH-5s.

 

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n3xu5 said:

BTW i dont know which buffalo on newegg.com is the "right type"

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Anything that says Winbond is the right type.
example

 

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man, look at the picture you linked.
it's CH-5.
BH-5 is reported better.

 

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The picture is pretty worthless. It is not supposed to be an exact depiction of what you are ordering.

It was my understanding that Bufallo PC3200 uses Winbond BH-5 modules. Is this incorrect?

 

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Probably not.
the pc3700 has been reported BH-5 (so does the picture), and the price is almost the same so why bother to take the chance? (and getting a lower rated ram..)

 

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Buffalo PC3200 uses Winbond CH-5 chips. They use to have BH-5 chips, but quit just about the same time as most of the other makers. Buffalo most likely saved its remaining batches of Winbond BH-5 chips for their higher priced, overclocked PC3700 modules. As of now, I havn't heard of any Buffalo PC3700 coming with CH-5 chips.

 

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that's my point

 

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Ok, sorry for the mixup, and thanks for the clarification. I hate buying memory; it's so hard to keep up with all of the changing info, especially when companies aren't too open about exactly what chips they use.

 

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be warned that there is issues with hyperx pc3000 and nf7's... just in case

 

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I'm not sure which winbond modules it has, but my buffalo pc3200 does 230mhz stable at 2.9v, and hardly feels warm.

 

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I got Buffalo PC3700 from Newegg at the end of July. It's BH-5 and does 210MHz 6222 easily.

 

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hey Zap37, by any chance are you using the 2500+ Barton? if not what cpu are you using? How far can you push it stable?

 

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be warned that there is issues with hyperx pc3000 and nf7's... just in case

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Please elaborate on this. Like provide links of proof. I'm about to get the PC3000 becuase its $20 cheaper(per stick) than the 3200. I'm was going with the PC3000 because Larva recommended them over the 3200s

 

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Nf7-s doesn't likemy hyperx 3000 revision A00. LOVES the A01

 

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So is there a way to find out which revision the sticks are? or is A00 the 512 stick and A01 the 256?

 

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n3xu5 said:

hey Zap37, by any chance are you using the 2500+ Barton? if not what cpu are you using? How far can you push it stable?

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Yes, there isn't a non-Barton 2500+. Right now I have it at 2328MHz at about 1.9v, but it just can't do 2400MHz, even when I push the voltage to 2.1v!

Still, not a bad overclock and the price was good.

 

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dryars said:

So is there a way to find out which revision the sticks are? or is A00 the 512 stick and A01 the 256?

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if you have hyperx look at the sticker on the lame heatspreaders. i beleive one is BH-5 and the other is CH-5. PC3000 i beleive comes in two flavors, BH-5 and BH-6... with BH-5 being A00 or whatever.

correct me if i am wrong, this is what i have been able to put together from searching around the net...

 

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