Saw some400mhz ddr2 today.....

[Superdoge]

Checking out cases on craigslist and I see a $500 old PC with a pentium 4 and 2gb of ddr2 at 387 mhz. Does anyone even use this?! "Ram Speed doesn't matter," just like size doesn't matter. Unless it's so small it sucks. I mean jesus, does anyone still use this? Or even DDR2?

[manikyath]

so, i traded one of those for a dead motherboard and a worn out keyboard a few months back.

[MoonlightSylv]

$500?????

[Lays]

LOOL 5 HUNDRED DOLLARS

[rtpb5642]

$500?????

Once saw a FX 8350 rig with 8GB RAM no SSD and a gtx 770 for 3500$ a few months ago on kijiji. 

[QueenDemetria]

Checking out cases on craigslist and I see a $500 old PC with a pentium 4 and 2gb of ddr2 at 387 mhz. Does anyone even use this?! "Ram Speed doesn't matter," just like size doesn't matter. Unless it's so small it sucks. I mean jesus, does anyone still use this? Or even DDR2?

I still use DDR2. I have 8GB and 16GB kits.

[TheMechEngineer]

lol you could get a brand new Core i3 for that price.

I've got DDR2-800 RAM in my Core 2 Duo. Just buying 4GB of DDR2 is like AU$35, but then the DDR2-1066 is selling for upwards of AU$60.

The only reason it's overpriced is because some idiots are dumb enough to buy it, because they think DDR2-1066 performs better than DDR2-800.

[WkdPaul]

I still use DDR2. I have 8GB and 16GB kits.

same here, 8GB DDR2-800 with a C2Q

[Dabombinable]

lol you could get a brand new Core i3 for that price.

I've got DDR2-800 RAM in my Core 2 Duo. Just buying 4GB of DDR2 is like AU$35, but then the DDR2-1066 is selling for upwards of AU$60.

The only reason it's overpriced is because some idiots are dumb enough to buy it, because they think DDR2-1066 performs better than DDR2-800.

Its not about the performance, its about the FSB overclocking headroom. Sticks rated at 800MHz just don't like getting pushed past 1066MHz, unlike DDR2 1066.

[QueenDemetria]

Its not about the performance, its about the FSB overclocking headroom. Sticks rated at 800MHz just don't like getting pushed past 1066MHz, unlike DDR2 1066.

Can confirm ^ When I do overclocking with DDR2 builds I use my "1066+ sweg" sticks from Adata, even though they are only 2GB. 

[TheMechEngineer]

Its not about the performance, its about the FSB overclocking headroom. Sticks rated at 800MHz just don't like getting pushed past 1066MHz, unlike DDR2 1066.

 

Yeah it would be better for overclocking.

But most DDR2-800 can survive at speeds up to 900MHz, I have mine running at 890MHz in a 4.0GHz computer.

I can't imagine everyone would be pushing their processors beyond 4.0GHz, which leads me to believe that it's just for the swag factor.

[Dabombinable]

Yeah it would be better for overclocking.

But most DDR2-800 can survive at speeds up to 900MHz, I have mine running at 890MHz in a 4.0GHz computer.

I can't imagine everyone would be pushing their processors beyond 4.0GHz, which leads me to believe that it's just for the swag factor.

I've actually got DDR2 800 sticks (2x1GB Team Xtreem dark, 1x2GB Kingston HyperX) designed for overclocking. So far the highest I've gotten them running at is 1078MHz. And I've also got a single stick of Corsair XMS DDR2 1066-which so far I've had (barely) running stable at 2000MHz.

[TriviaBeast]

The latency can probably be measured in planck time, though.

[oskarha]

Yeah it would be better for overclocking.

But most DDR2-800 can survive at speeds up to 900MHz, I have mine running at 890MHz in a 4.0GHz computer.

I can't imagine everyone would be pushing their processors beyond 4.0GHz, which leads me to believe that it's just for the swag factor.

If you say that most ddr2-800 sticks go up go 900mhz i must have been quite lucky with the two 2gb ddr2-800 oem sticks i have. I was able to get them up to 960mhz using setfsb to get from 1333 to 1600 on a dell oem board (6h aida64 stress test passed no issues).

[TheMechEngineer]

If you say that most ddr2-800 sticks go up go 900mhz i must have been quite lucky with the two 2gb ddr2-800 oem sticks i have. I was able to get them up to 960mhz using setfsb to get from 1333 to 1600 on a dell oem board (6h aida64 stress test passed no issues).

 

Or I might be unlucky. I'm using 2 x 1GB sticks of Geil DDR2-800, which is good quality RAM but not really designed for overclocking (no tall heatspreaders etc).

My Core 2 Duo is rock solid stable at 4.0GHz with the RAM at 890MHz, but if I try to go up to 4.2GHz then I get a BSOD.

Bumping up all the voltages all do absolutely nothing, and thermals are fine, so I reckon my RAM just can't go faster than that.

[oskarha]

Or I might be unlucky. I'm using 2 x 1GB sticks of Geil DDR2-800, which is good quality RAM but not really designed for overclocking (no tall heatspreaders etc).

My Core 2 Duo is rock solid stable at 4.0GHz with the RAM at 890MHz, but if I try to go up to 4.2GHz then I get a BSOD.

Bumping up all the voltages all do absolutely nothing, and thermals are fine, so I reckon my RAM just can't go faster than that.

Ive got quite alot of ddr2-800 lying around, so one day i might see if i can get the same overclock (1600 fsb 960mhz ram) on my other ram sticks.

[TheMechEngineer]

Ive got quite alot of ddr2-800 lying around, so one day i might see if i can get the same overclock (1600 fsb 960mhz ram) on my other ram sticks.

 

That actually reminded me that I had some spare DDR2-800 RAM stashed away, so I pulled it out and tried it, with the same results.

Now I'm actually starting to think that it's my motherboard that is the problem, it's a fairly basic DDR2 motherboard so I'm not really surprised if that's the case.

Doesn't really matter because I'll be getting a higher-end motherboard eventually anyway.

[QueenDemetria]

If you say that most ddr2-800 sticks go up go 900mhz i must have been quite lucky with the two 2gb ddr2-800 oem sticks i have. I was able to get them up to 960mhz using setfsb to get from 1333 to 1600 on a dell oem board (6h aida64 stress test passed no issues).

I have a set of highly binned Micron 667Mhz sticks that(ironically) came out of my shitty HP. They never ran at the rated 667Mhz, it always bumped them up to 800Mhz. When I ran all 3 sticks together, I was able to get 850Mhz stable, but with individually testing them I got 850Mhz, 955Mhz, and 980Mhz. I wonder what I could push them to if I put on heat spreaders and raised the voltage.

[Deagon]

Its not about the performance, its about the FSB overclocking headroom. Sticks rated at 800MHz just don't like getting pushed past 1066MHz, unlike DDR2 1066.

This! I'm using DDR2 currently, not for long though, but yeah, i need that to overclock the hell out of this old clunker.

[oskarha]

That actually reminded me that I had some spare DDR2-800 RAM stashed away, so I pulled it out and tried it, with the same results.

Now I'm actually starting to think that it's my motherboard that is the problem, it's a fairly basic DDR2 motherboard so I'm not really surprised if that's the case.

Doesn't really matter because I'll be getting a higher-end motherboard eventually anyway.

The motherboard i achieved 960MHz on was a oem dell foxconn board (dell vostro 220). I was impressed when i was able to hit 1600fsb as the chipset is only rated for 1333 max. What i did to acheive the overclock was basically just slowly increasing the fsb until the system crashed at 1601fsb. Rebooted the system and dialed in 1600fsb and BAM stable overclock.