Kingmax turbo pc3500

[outrunner]

Is Kingmax Turbo pc3500 a good choice of memory to over clock a Opteron 144 on an Asus A8N-e board?

 

[mjwigham2]

What difference does RAM types make ?

 

[FarFarAway]

I would say NO.

I'm not a fan of Kingmax at all.

I tend to stick to:

OCZ, Crucial, GSkill, Mushkin or even Corsair.

Kingmax would never be on my list I'm afraid

 

[mjwigham2]

Is there a major performance dif between the manufacturers ?

 

[FarFarAway]

Well the above ones tend to make RAM that overclocks very nicely and even runs at stock speeds with vwery tight timings increasing performance.

Basically with memory: you mostly get what you pay for

 

[outrunner]

I would say NO.

I'm not a fan of Kingmax at all.

I tend to stick to:

OCZ, Crucial, GSkill, Mushkin or even Corsair.

Kingmax would never be on my list I'm afraid

OK thanks for the info I'll take it off my list

 

[mjwigham2]

thanks

 

[mjwigham2]

Think its time to buy some new RAM

 

[Dav0s]

if you want to overclock...then i would say yes

 

[FragTek]

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I would advise against anything from kingmax. They make products that cater to people looking for cheap cheap cheap parts.

The companies that kemp listed are all very reputable ram manufacturers and its hard to go wrong with any one of them.

The low end manufacturers usually produce modules on generic low priced pcb with the least expensive variety of memory ic's currently available to them. The combination of those two things = horribly slow memory which is at a higher risk to randomly die than the good stiff from top makers.

I would look at G. Skills current lineup of ram, it seems to be clocking well and very reasonably priced.

 

[bloodthirst]

I would say NO.

I'm not a fan of Kingmax at all.

I tend to stick to:

OCZ, Crucial, GSkill, Mushkin or even Corsair.

Kingmax would never be on my list I'm afraid

why not geil mate? do you dislike them

 

[FarFarAway]

GEIL are ok but the only person I know with a real good OC on GEIL is Jim.

I've used it with a mates buil;d and it didn't OC very well.

Cheap and cheerfuil but I wouldn't buy it

 

[FragTek]

I hear the new GEIL ONE series is clocking like nuts...

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah I aint seen much of the GEIL one series. Got links Mr Fraggles?

 

[FragTek]

Yeah I aint seen much of the GEIL one series. Got links Mr Fraggles?

Lemme see what I can find over @ XS... I thought I just saw something a couple days ago. Look for an edit here shortly.

Here's just a quick post with a few results: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=79562&highlight=GEIL+Series

They seem to be able to fairly reliably hit 270+ w/ nice volts and low timings.

 

[Dav0s]

my geil sucks for oc'ing, but some magic sets did have BH5 so can't complain. i think its great value actually

 

[FarFarAway]

Yep great value but don't think I'd buy it for a main system tbh

 

[outrunner]

I've just been looking on ebay, is this what I should be thinking of getting to clock my Opteron 144, Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000 1024MB DDR (2x512MB)?

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah the Ballistix is good chips mate.

Hrmm who wants a list of my reccomended RAM?? :eh:

 

[outrunner]

I settled on a 1Gb dual channel set of Mushkin XP3200 (PC3200) 2-2-2 Redline Xtreme Performance from a Irish online shop, about £30 cheaper than any UK retailer that I could find.