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I thought this might help if you're shopping around for budget priced RAM and still want some overclocking potential. If you have your own results from value priced RAM, please add to this thread. and please, no dissing of value RAM; sometimes we can't justify spending double the price for high FSB 1:1 ratio, but we still want the best bang for the buck.
I recently had a chance to try out 3 different sets of dual-channel RAM for my Winnie 3000+ on MSI Neo2 board, along with the one set of RAM I already had, and i noticed something results:
CORSAIR VALUE RAM SUCKS!
Anyways, here are my results. All RAM was either 2.5-3-3-7 or 2.5-3-3-8 at stock, and I kept all at 1T because 2T is way too much of a performance hit.
OEM brand Infineon BT-6 set of sticks: - best overclock speed: 220mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. It started to need looser timings past 212mhz. This ram has been used for over a year, so it was well burnt-in.
OEM brand Samsung TCCC set of sticks: - bets overclock speed: 215mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. Not impressed with these, since i thought TCCC could at least hit 230. must've been OEM brand cheap board, or not enough burn-in time.
Corsair Value Select 2x512, not sure what RAM chips are on those: - best overclock speed: 211mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. pure crap these were.
and, for same price as the Corsair Value, i ended up with OCZ Premier 2x512. best overclock: 238mhz at 2.5-5-5-10, 2.85V. This ram refused to run at CAS 3.0 (which is a good thing; keeping 2.5 all the way up the FSB ladder was impressive, compared to the other Value ram). Another nice thing, this RAM can keep its default timing of 2.5-3-3-7 all the way up to 225mhz. If I go 2T, I can probably push this RAM a bit past 250mhz. And these numbers are from fresh sticks with little burn-in time. I can't wait until these babies are fully burned in.
so if you're shopping around for value ram for a budget oc'ing system, have a strong look at the OCZ Premier. I heard good stuff about OCZ Value VX as well, but they were out of stock in my area.
I recently had a chance to try out 3 different sets of dual-channel RAM for my Winnie 3000+ on MSI Neo2 board, along with the one set of RAM I already had, and i noticed something results:
CORSAIR VALUE RAM SUCKS!
Anyways, here are my results. All RAM was either 2.5-3-3-7 or 2.5-3-3-8 at stock, and I kept all at 1T because 2T is way too much of a performance hit.
OEM brand Infineon BT-6 set of sticks: - best overclock speed: 220mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. It started to need looser timings past 212mhz. This ram has been used for over a year, so it was well burnt-in.
OEM brand Samsung TCCC set of sticks: - bets overclock speed: 215mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. Not impressed with these, since i thought TCCC could at least hit 230. must've been OEM brand cheap board, or not enough burn-in time.
Corsair Value Select 2x512, not sure what RAM chips are on those: - best overclock speed: 211mhz at 3-4-4-8, 2.85V. pure crap these were.
and, for same price as the Corsair Value, i ended up with OCZ Premier 2x512. best overclock: 238mhz at 2.5-5-5-10, 2.85V. This ram refused to run at CAS 3.0 (which is a good thing; keeping 2.5 all the way up the FSB ladder was impressive, compared to the other Value ram). Another nice thing, this RAM can keep its default timing of 2.5-3-3-7 all the way up to 225mhz. If I go 2T, I can probably push this RAM a bit past 250mhz. And these numbers are from fresh sticks with little burn-in time. I can't wait until these babies are fully burned in.
so if you're shopping around for value ram for a budget oc'ing system, have a strong look at the OCZ Premier. I heard good stuff about OCZ Value VX as well, but they were out of stock in my area.