Buying RAM

I want to pick up some good memory in advance of the AMD/Intel price cut. I'm siding on Intel and getting an E6420 or E6600 on a P5N-E SLI Mobo.

Which one is most suitable for overclocking? I want to stick with DDR2 800 so:

OCZ 2Gb (2 X 1Gb) DDR2-800 Dual Channel Special Ops Edition XTC (5-5-5-12) - OCZ2SOE8002GK
Manufacturer: OCZ - $160 CDN


OCZ 2G (1G X2) DDR2800 Dual Channel GOLD XTC Edition(5-5-5-12) - OCZ2G8002G-K - $165 CDN

OCZ 2G (1G X2) DDR2800 Dual Channel Titanium XTC Edition(4-4-4-15) - OCZ2T8002GK - $199 CDN

OCZ 2G (1G X2) DDR2800 Dual Channel Platinum REV 2 XTC Edition(4-4-4-16) - OCZ2P800R22GK - $180CDN

OCZ 2G (2X1Gb) DDR2800 Kit DDR2 System Elite Edition(5-5-5-15) - OCZ2SE8002GK - $195CDN

Are you using water? If not any of those will work perfectly as getting too much over 3.6ghz on air is a bit of a long shot. If you are using water and expect something like 3.7-3.8 you will only be running 422mhz FSB tops with an E6600. I'd suspect any of these can do it. Unless you really care about timings I'd get the cheapest 2x1gb kit you can find.

If you want an E6420 you'll need around 450mhz fsb...and for that I'd go for something with CAS 4 and expect to drop it to CAS5 to hit 450.

Good luck.

Thanks - I plan to use stock air cooling or spending no more than $50 for another cooler.

My goal is to pull in an o/c of 3GHz and to have some sort of cool n' quiet (or whatever it's called with intel) running.

I just found this thread and today bought 4-4-4-15 Titanium Rev 2 memory for $20 (after rebate). Talk about a price drop! From $199...

Let's see if DDR3 will follow this drop in 2008.

I doubt DDR3 will have any benifits... The processor can't keep up with RAMs and the latancy is likely higher than DDR2.