If you own a stick or more of this ram you’re in luck, you’ve well spet your money. These babys are very affordable and can be pushed to perform better than some more expensive competitors. However if you don’t pay attention, you might be mission out on the good stuff. My motherboard automatically set the ram at 5-5-5-18, which is not really where you optimally want to be since these sticks handle faster timings. 4-4-4-12 is where I’ve had mine for a long time at 2.1V (default 1.9V), but now I’m trying 4-4-4-10. With my cpu at 3.6ghz and my memory multiplier at 2.0D the system runs pretty nicely. Note that I’m not pushing the mhz higher than the original 800mhz. Give the timings a shot if you haven’t already 😉
Posts Tagged 'xms2'
Corsair XMS2 6400 800mhz DDR2
Published March 19, 2009 hardware Leave a CommentTags: 6400, 800, corsair, latency, mhz, overclock, ram, timing, timings, volt, voltage, volts, xms2
New Rig Project (2)
Published May 4, 2008 hardware Leave a CommentTags: 3, 38, 3dmark, 500, 6, 800, 8400, 8800, amp, antec, boxed, build, card, case, core, corsair, cpu, ddr2, dq, duo, earth, ex, geforce, gigabyte, gt, iii, intel, motherboard, Project, psu, ram, rig, sonata, video, watts, wolfdale, xms2, zotac
I previously told you that I was going to build a new pc for myself, and I gave a list about the parts. Now I’ve had the rig up and running for about an week, and I’m mostly happy. The e8400 processor is very nice, and in combination with the gigabyte ex38-dq6 motherboard, there shouldn’t be any problems overclocking it. However, the stock heatsink doesn’t do it’s job efficiently enough for my standards (min: 35C, max: 46C, avg: 38C with factory clock), so I’ve ordered a Scythe Ninja Plus. I hope I can fit it in the case 😀
The Zotac Geforce 8800 GT AMP! card is working like a charm. I ran 3DMark and scored just below 13000 with stock settings, and when I’ve got the new heatsink and some overclock, I’ll run it again and post the results.
New Rig Project
Published April 16, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: 3, 38, 500, 6, 800, 8400, amp, antec, boxed, build, card, case, core, corsair, cpu, ddr2, dq, duo, earth, ex, geforce, gigabyte, iii, intel, motherboard, Project, psu, ram, rig, sonata, video, watts, wolfdale, xms2, zotac
Somewhere around October 2007 my old pc decided to stop working, and I decided to stop working on it, since that wasn’t the first time. I though I could buy a new one soon and maybe then play around with the old one to see what was wrong and set it up as a server. However, this project would take much longer than I anticipated, it’s still not finished. Most of the time was spent on me being lazy, the rest on component providers not being able to provide components. Now I’ve got everything but the CPU.
Case: Antec Sonata III (with 500w psu)
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX38-DQ6
RAM: Corsair XMS2 ddr2 800mhz 1gb X 4 (4 gb total)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce 8800GT 512MB AMP! Edition
CPU (don’t have it yet): Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz Boxed (Wolfdale, 6MB)
I’m getting the HDD + CD burner + CD reader from the old pc.
Hopefully I get it soon, then I can maybe post some benchmarks.
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