Abit AB9 QuadGT

[Clunk]

Depends on the chip and the board, so impossible to say.

[daza]

Ok so after a bit more looking around I think I've decided on the Quad gt, E6400 and 2gb of crucial ballistix, as hopefully that combination should get me to above 3ghz and above 400fsb if I don't have a duff board duff cpu or duff ram but knowing my luck its entirely possible.

So do we reckon the above is OK??

[Clunk]

Ok so after a bit more looking around I think I've decided on the Quad gt, E6400 and 2gb of crucial ballistix, as hopefully that combination should get me to above 3ghz and above 400fsb if I don't have a duff board duff cpu or duff ram but knowing my luck its entirely possible.

So do we reckon the above is OK??

How come that ram is so expensive? you should be able to pick up some similarly specced stuff for almost half that, or maybe even some 8500 stuff for around the same price.

[daza]

How come that ram is so expensive? you should be able to pick up some similarly specced stuff for almost half that, or maybe even some 8500 stuff for around the same price.

I'm not buying from there site not at those prices I just believe in linking to the manufacturers site, anyway ocuk have the same stuff for £176.53 inc delivery, which I dont think is too bad just that its from ocuk so it better work.

[Clunk]

Still seems a lot for pc2-6400, or has it gone back up again?

[Alistair]

what about 2gb of Corair TwinX instead?

2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP

Its only £149.23 on Scan's Today Only

[daza]

I've looked at the twinx stuff from scan and tbh I'd rather spend the extra £20+ for the crucial stuff as I've seen reviews of the stuff hitting 490fsb plus I know people from different forums with the same stuff and they overclock pretty well, which is was I'm after.

[Supershanks]

with the corsair stuff you never know whwt chip your getting imo. I llooked at both corsair & crucial when speccing memory found this a decent guide Choosing the Right Memory for Core 2 Duo Platform - Part 3: DDR2-800 SDRAM Modules Roundup
only to find that the apparent winner Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400С4 had changed spec & wasn't 'owt special.

I put together a short list of my own Wot Memory 4 new conroe build memory is working a treat. Cellshock do a 2Gb CellShock DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 4-4-4-12 same Micron D9GKX chips as mine, which with the same spec as the crucial is a good bit cheaper.

luck

[Reapsy]

There's some OCZ 6400 on overclockers for £117 inc vat is that no good for you? Seems like a very nice price to me.

[dbh]

The Crucials are better they can hit 1000Mhz from what I've seen in reviews, when you compare that price to 2Ghz of PC8500 your saving alot. Though you can always spend a lil more and get the OCZ PC8500 SLI ram... I'm considering doing that.

[Clunk]

The Crucials are better they can hit 1000Mhz from what I've seen in reviews

Hand picked samples for reviews. Its not often you see a review of ram that doesnt give a half decent overclock, so take reviews with a pinch of salt and if you really need 1000mhz, buy some 8500 ram

[daza]

Depends on how much I get payed tbh I know that I will be able to afford everything including the crucial ram which should do 960mhz for a 480fsb I hope at 4-4-4-12 which is what I'm aiming for, but if I get payed an extra £50 (doubtful) I might go with the ocz stuff but thats looking highly unlikely.

[BUFF]

with the corsair stuff you never know whwt chip your getting imo.

if you know the rev. you do - they are very open on their forum as to what has what module (sticky thread).

The Ballistix should be D9GMH (same as the 10th Anniversary stuff that every 1 was fawning over)

btw dbh I asked about RAID for you.
seems that ICH8R is split into 2 sets of ports 1-4 & 5+6 so you can have 2 arrays but you can't have an array of 6 drives.

[dbh]

Thanks BUFF. That should be enough as I only plan to have two 160 GB drives in RAID and then one SATA optical DVD-RW. That shouldn't give me any headaches *touchwood*. Just contemplating would the P5N-E be a better buy than the P5B-E Plus if it came back in stock?

[daza]

btw dbh I asked about RAID for you.
seems that ICH8R is split into 2 sets of ports 1-4 & 5+6 so you can have 2 arrays but you can't have an array of 6 drives.

So does that mean you can only have 4 drives in raid or would having 4 drives in raid 10, and 2 in raid 1 work or not??

[Supershanks]

Thanks buff that's what i thought.
Like yourself i've not used raid for a long term but lately had just got back into it on my old rig, run out of things to oc & got bored. Velieve that intel's matrix raid is much better than the nvidia i used & so plan to play games with 4x80gb sata2 hitachi, which will give flexibilty to have a fast raiid0 or try raid5 or have a redundant drive etc., I have a 320 & 250gb drives i'll continue to use for docs & data.

luck