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feyd83

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I'm finally upgrading my computer after a year and a half. My current setup is below. The crap generic ram I have isn't even stable at 140 fsb. I'm going to be buying an Abit NF7-S and I want to know what'll be the best 2x512 ram to put in it so I can OC the crap outta my 2400+. Price isn't an issue......

I was thinking Mushkin lvl 2 PC3500, OCZ Limited Edition (which doesn't seem like it's doing great in the forum), or maybe searching through newegg to find Corsair XMS PC3500 with BH-5 in it. Also, I'd rather not have to do a voltage mod at this point.
 
I think any RAM is great aslong as it contains the Winbond BH-5 modules. There's specific Twinmos, Buffalo, Corsair, etc etc sticks with it. You might want to try out http://www.picewatch.com/ Google, ZipZoomFly, and Newegg. Don't use pricewatch without http://www.resellerratings.com/

P.S. I don't think you'll get too far overclocking your 2400+ because they don't overclock well. You should try the Barton 2500+, Barton 2600+, 1700+ TB-B (Preferrably DLT3C), and the 1800+ TB-B.
 
I'm not worried about my cpu. I was playing with it several months ago and was able to get it to boot at 2.4 ghz, though it locked when it tried to load the operating system. I'm pretty sure my ram is massively bottlenecking me.
 
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