Hi I am planning on building a new system within the next month or two. I've been hearing about people debate the value of cheap vs expensive ram on an A64 system. Not sure which way to go.
What I am wondering is with a memory divider could you overclock a cpu with relatively cheap memory as much (strictly Raw MHz) as the high end stuff trying to push tight timings or high frequency? Since you aren't pushing the memory as much would it even matter? I'm guessing no.
Also if I were to get 2 512mb of "ok" sticks starting out with maybe better timings/or higher frequencies and then get 2 512mb sticks later would the penalty of 2T be that much greater then running 1T with 2 1 gig cheap sticks at looser timings/lower frequencies? Is there a problem overclocking 4X512 vs 2X1024 sticks? With 4 sticks I guess you might have more compatibility issues?
I'm looking at getting a:
x2 3800+
DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D
xp-120 hsf (is there anything better out now?)
nvidia 7800 GT
Just need to figure out how I'll go with the memory. Hoping to overclock to 2.6 Ghz. It will be used for work and play. I had a bp6 dual cpu setup way back when and I was looking to go dual again (in a single package this time). I do a lot of mulitasking, run development software etc.. . and of course games..
What I am wondering is with a memory divider could you overclock a cpu with relatively cheap memory as much (strictly Raw MHz) as the high end stuff trying to push tight timings or high frequency? Since you aren't pushing the memory as much would it even matter? I'm guessing no.
Also if I were to get 2 512mb of "ok" sticks starting out with maybe better timings/or higher frequencies and then get 2 512mb sticks later would the penalty of 2T be that much greater then running 1T with 2 1 gig cheap sticks at looser timings/lower frequencies? Is there a problem overclocking 4X512 vs 2X1024 sticks? With 4 sticks I guess you might have more compatibility issues?
I'm looking at getting a:
x2 3800+
DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D
xp-120 hsf (is there anything better out now?)
nvidia 7800 GT
Just need to figure out how I'll go with the memory. Hoping to overclock to 2.6 Ghz. It will be used for work and play. I had a bp6 dual cpu setup way back when and I was looking to go dual again (in a single package this time). I do a lot of mulitasking, run development software etc.. . and of course games..