DDR2800 or DDR21066?

[mentul]

Worth the extra $60 for 266mhz more on the memory for a C2D E6300 setup that is going to be OCed?

 

The two kits of DDR2 I'm speaking of are:

 

DDR2 800: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820220144

DDR2 1066: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820220161

[Kingfisher]

You can buy either, the ddr2-800 will work just fine. You won't notice much improvement with the faster RAM except in benchies.

[red930]

You can buy either, the ddr2-800 will work just fine. You won't notice much improvement with the faster RAM except in benchies.

 

Ditto. After grabbing DDR2-1000 and DDR2-800, there just is no real reason to have it any faster unless you enjoy benching. Plus a lot of DDR2-800 will overclock pretty damn well anyways.

[Coors]

I would get the ddr2 800. Depending on what chips those have they should be able to OC pretty well anyways.

[mentul]

Cool! Thanks for the replies, guys.

[Liqui3D]

Depending on the IC's these are using, DDR2-800 may be better simply because you can run CL3-3-3-12 just beyond 800MHz however the faster memory may use Elipida or newer Micron D9's which don't holf tight timings well. I've seen some real improvementts between CL4-4-4-12 at 100MHz which the less expesnive Patriot DDR2-800Mhz will do easily on Gaming benchmarks compared to 1100MHz runing 5-5-5-12 on the other "faster" chips.

 

This link may tell you which memory uses which chips and that may help. Just remember with Intel systems that latency isn't going to matter as much as top speed.

 

Here's a MadOnion2001SE benchmark using 800MHz Micron IC's aka PC2-6400;

[Technohydra]

I'd think about Buffalo Firestix, personally. Micron D9's, ddr2 800, and about $160.