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[qasdfdsaq]

Yeah, the RAM is fine. I would be tempted to say overkill/overpriced but given RAM prices these days it's barely more than Kingston ValueRAM.

Might just be personal luck but I've always just bought the cheapest, 'Tesco Value' RAM available and it's always been completely reliable and overclocks just fine - every cheapo RAM stick I've had will easily run at one full speed grade higher at stock voltage, e.g. PC-100 ran at PC-133, DDR-200 ran at DDR-266, DDR2-533 ran at DDR2-800, and currently my cheapo DDR3-1333 RAM is sitting at a comfortable DDR3-1680 without heatsinks or even heatspreaders.

IMO all this 'overclocking' RAM is complete snake oil.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

IMO all this 'overclocking' RAM is complete snake oil.

That's why I don't run my ram overclocked, even though my Corsair 1600Mhz ram will run at 2133Mhz but slightly different timings, for stock speed it runs at 8-8-8-24 1T, but for 2133Mhz it needs them to be at 10-10-9-24 1T.

Doesn't make much difference though in what I use my pc for on a day to day basis, and I only clock it up if I know a benchmark gives better results for faster ram.