Ddr 550

[blawblaw]

Is it any different from DDR 500? I am serious about getting some new ram for my rig before DDR gets phased out.

I need to hit 3.1+ on air!!

 

[FarFarAway]

DDR550 = 275FSB - thats the only difference

 

[blawblaw]

Well, I guess every little bit helps.

 

[FarFarAway]

Well, I guess every little bit helps.

Yeppers

 

[FragTek]

G.Skill makes a nice DDR550 kit that I'd definately look in to. I would imagine that DDR550 is more or less just a marketing ploy though. Find some good sub-DDR550 with a great track record and you should be able to pull 300+mhz from it. But that G.Skill DDR550 might be capable of that too

Is there any kit in particular that you're looking at?

 

[NickS]

Just get some ballistix 2x512 kit. They dont die, they WILL do 270MHz FSB, and they're cheap. Only con is you NEED to have a fan directly over them, or they will kick the bucket.

 

[blawblaw]

Well, I was looking into, like you said, G.Skill. But I would be going down to 1GB (could go with 4 sticks), but I don't know if I want to do that.

I saw Corsair's mem, 2GB kit, that seems nice also. Right now, I'm undecided.

 

[FragTek]

Did you ever pick out a kit?

I'd look in to the Ballistix that Nick mentioned or go back and check out the G.Skill DDR550 kit again, both are superb.

And I don't know if it's been resolved but back when I was heavy in to AMD clocking Corsair was about the least compatible/overclockable memory to use with AMD's. Might be all better now?

 

[blawblaw]

Did you ever pick out a kit?

I'd look in to the Ballistix that Nick mentioned or go back and check out the G.Skill DDR550 kit again, both are superb.

And I don't know if it's been resolved but back when I was heavy in to AMD clocking Corsair was about the least compatible/overclockable memory to use with AMD's. Might be all better now?

Going with Geil.

 

[Raven]

Going with Geil.

Geil's good, got 2x512mb pc4000 and they manage quite well.

pushed them to 260 atmost with slightly tighter timings then spd.

 

[twisted5]

i have a set of TCCD 2x512 from G.Skill that was doing 314 2.5-3-3-3 1T and 338 3-3-4-3 2T. If you are going for 2x512 see if you can find some TCCD just from my personal experience. I think I will break these bad boys out and see what I can do with my old 3700+ sometime soon.

 

[blawblaw]

Yup, gonna try to get my hands on some TCCD or BH-5. As far as size goes, am i going to notice a HUGE difference in gaming since Ill be going from 2gb to 1gb?

 

[WC Annihilus]

I think I have some BH-5 RAM sitting around, but it's a friend's so he would be the one to set the price. Also, I can't really test it to see how high it can go as I don't think my mobo can handle very high vDimm.

 

[|3ourne]

I have some tccd from centon that does at least 275 mhz . Thats on DFI Expert which isnt suited for tccd. I am sure on an ultra-d or some other board along that line up will take it higher. Let me know if you want them. Geil is good , so is gskill. If anything else , run a divider , A64 doest really care that much for a divider neways. Im running my rig with a divider .

 

[blawblaw]

I have some tccd from centon that does at least 275 mhz . Thats on DFI Expert which isnt suited for tccd. I am sure on an ultra-d or some other board along that line up will take it higher. Let me know if you want them. Geil is good , so is gskill. If anything else , run a divider , A64 doest really care that much for a divider neways. Im running my rig with a divider .

Yeah running a divider right now, it's the only way I could overclock because my ram is just awful.

twisted5 told me hes selling his G.Skill for 100 bucks, I just need to get the money. If I can't get the cash, ill pick up some Geil for $89 more.