Mushkin Redline XP4000, will 2 sets of 1 GB affect overclock?

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Boldt843

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Well its time for a new computer, I currently have a $2000 budget. My up in coming system as of now will be:

AMD Athlon 64 3800+ X2
DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR
2 sets of Muskin Redline XP 4000’s
EVGA 7800 GT
MEG Vortec 600 Watt Power supply
Zalman CNPS9500 LED Heatsink
Sunbeam LAC-RT Red Computer Case With Side Panel Window

And various other accessories such as fans/cathodes/ and a DVD Burner Combo.

I all ready have a 300 GB hard drive, and an audigy 2. Sense that turns out all together to be about 1700, im thinking of adding another hard drive for about an additional 90.

I’m hoping to overclock my processor from 2.0 to 2.6. I should have no trouble with this ram it looks like. The ram runs at 250 at 2-2-2 timings, with a little voltage increase, I should reach 260 at 2-2-2 as well with a 1:1 ratio. The only problem is that I’ve heard (not with this ram) but with some of the OCZ Memory doesn’t overclock nearly as well or even perform at it specified speed when an additional GB of the same Ram is added. I seriously don’t want to speed $400 on RAM and figure out that I can’t use half of it.

Does anyone have any experience with this ram with 2 sets? Or do you know of any other RAM that has problems with 2 sets as well?
 
a 10mhz ram overclock should be no problem, my generic ram did that with no problem. And i doubt you need a voltage increase.
 
OCZ memory is the shit, if you can't overclock it then you've either got other hardware holding it back, or you've just got a bad stick and need to RMA. (To whoever told you this myth about OCZ nad adding another 1GB)

Overclocking with large sticks like 1GB can be challenging if you want a large overclock, but 10MHz with same timings as stock should be no problem at all.
 
"a 10mhz ram overclock should be no problem, my generic ram did that with no problem. And i doubt you need a voltage increase."

Did you have 2 GB's of RAM?

The ram it self can do 1.5-2-2 at even higher speeds than 260, its really pretty amazing. The problem is less with the ram it self, and more with the fact that all the test that show the ram's capabilities were done with 1 set of 2x 512 MB of ram.

I don't want this problem (this is with OCZ RAM mind you):
"I bought 2 of these kits for a total of 2GB of RAM. I couldn't get them to overclock at all above DDR400, and they were not at all stable until I dropped them down to DDR333 with timings of 3-4-4-16-2T. Even with 3.0V. I'm returning these for something else, probably a pair of 2x1GB."

I found this at http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/FeedBack/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16820227206
 
Boldt843 said:
I don't want this problem (this is with OCZ RAM mind you):
"I bought 2 of these kits for a total of 2GB of RAM. I couldn't get them to overclock at all above DDR400, and they were not at all stable until I dropped them down to DDR333 with timings of 3-4-4-16-2T. Even with 3.0V. I'm returning these for something else, probably a pair of 2x1GB."

I found this at http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/FeedBack/CustRatingReview.asp?Item=N82E16820227206
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Again, that guy is probably a tard who has a crappy motherboard or CPU that is holding him back. Alot of people on newegg.com expect there overclocks to be just as good as the world record holder, and if it's not, they return it. this is not the way to shop.

every brand has bad sticks of course. you might get duds and have to RMA, happened to me the first time i bought RAM. But no brand makes ALL bad products.
 
Thanks for the replies, Just making sure about RAM. $400 is a big investment, and i sure don't want to waist it.
 
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