I have athlon 64 venice 3000+ A8N-SLI Delux Twinmos Twistor 3700 1mb 2x512 (only hits 260FSB) 6800GTO OCZ Modstream 520 Coolmaster Wavemaster Dual 160Gb Raid 0 As you can see there is a problem there. My ram can only hit 260fsb thus my CPU is only running at 2.34ghz when i know it is capable of 2.7ghz. Soooo im looking for a best band for your buck, but it needs to hit 300fsb and stay under 200 dollers. I do have an idea of what im looking at however i would like your input as to what ram i could get and still keep my timings low Here are a couple of sets im looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820146890 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820227204 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820146355 The first one is the one i am seriously thinking about. the other two i just found and threw in.
Newegg is being a pain and not letting me access the links to the ram, but I will try to help anyway. My personal favorite is OCZ stuff - perticularly the platinum EL stuff. SOmething like the PC-4800/4200 PLEL would do you pretty well because you can set some pretty aggressive timings and still maintain a resonable amount of stability. If you are not looking to spend that much money (the dimms are nutso expensive here in canada), I have seen pretty good performance out of the Corsair XMS stuff. THe xpert stuff runs pretty well for pc3200, and you can hit pretty good speeds, but if you are going to pick up that stuff, you might as well spend the couple of extra bucks and get the OCZ or the Kingston PC4000 hyperx (which is good, but I have heard that you can run into problems at major overclocks or when you try to jump to a 2.2.2.8 set of timings) Good luck
Why not just run a divider? Set the FSB to 300, stick in the 166 memory divider and 2.7ghz is yours. You can increase the FSB further, drop the multi and run the memory closer to 260 as well if you wanted too
