any of this super cheap ram good?

donno if anyone noticed, but in the past few days slick deals has been just rolling out the ram promotions from frys.

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5162136

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4954981

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/5220847

from top to bottom best to worst.

question is, would I benefit from it?

right now I have an E4300 in a arock dual775 mobo running 1gb(2x512) of some high quality PC3200 2-2-2 DDR ram.

my FSB maxes in the 180's... which is sad, but Im not sure if its my ram or the mobo thats hurting me. my OC is a meager 2.25ghz with obviously no voltage adjustments, and water cooling that keeps the chip more or less just over ambient.

given that mobo, in no uncertain terms, sucks. would spending even 70$ for that cheap ram do me any good for the OC beyond the 2gb vs 1gb(it wont make 3 since the mobo cant run DDR and DDR2 together)? and on that line of questioning, whats the chances the middle or high end would improve it any further?

I would say the upgrade is worth it. Even with that DDR2-667 stuff you have a chance at 3Ghz. Well that is if the board lets you.

if is always the key term isnt it?

ya know, now that I think about it, I built my parents a stout rig a while back with quality DDR2 ram. maybe Ill yank that and test it out to see what the potential is.

you don't need to test any thing if you don't mind reading this. it is anandtech's review of the asrock 775 dual-vsta. they did a pretty good RAM test using ddr333, 400, ddr2 533 and 667.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2810&p=7

thats a very informative read for what it is, but it does not indicate anything about overclock potential of the ram; thats what Im interested in, my old ram locks out much lower than most others, and I THINK the asrock is capable of more. obviously not alot, but more...

well, looks like it is of no use at all.

booted it up at the same speed and the 1m super pi went from 30sec to 29sec.

tried to bump the clock speed from 2.29-2.5. it restarted soon as windows came up.

if I cant even get .2ghz for 100$, Ill pass. looks like its either the mobo or the cpu, probably the mobo, though I think it SHOULD be able to do that, the bios is so confusing I have no idea how to tweak it.

saved myself a hundred bucks atleast.

If you see PQI or Wintec, I can vouch for great performance on their sticks also.