I'm rebuilding my current system, keeping the motherboard and CPU because I've gotten some fairly sweet performance out of both. I have an Asus P5KC and a Q6600 that I've had running stable at 3.6 GHz (left it on for 72 hours with prime95 running, no errors) but now it needs a RAM upgrade. I was running 2GB of Corsair 800 MHz RAM with pretty nice timings (4-4-4-15) but my needs have changed and 8GB is what I'm aiming for.
Before anyone asks: I'm doing a programming course with an emphasis on multimedia, so there's a lot of video editing and dealing with photoshop images 10,000+ x 10,000+ on both OSX Leopard (Hackintosh ftw) and Vista Ultimate 64-bit, 8gb RAM is both hugely beneficial and supported.
I'll welcome any suggestions for other RAM, CL4 preferrably, and has to be PC2-6400 (for 1:1 with my CPU's FSB)
Edit: I don't think the OCZ Reaper X would fit the board, thanks to a warning on OCZ's site saying it wouldn't, convenietly shown to me by my flatmate moments after I had posted the thread. As such I removed that part of the post. So I went back browsing and found an 8GB kit of OCZ Platinum, at 5-4-4-18. Not CL4, but OCZ have a good reputation of being overclockers, does anyone have any experience getting this type of RAM to 4-4-4-15 or lower?
Further edit: link to the kit http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_8gb_platinum_quad_kit
Before anyone asks: I'm doing a programming course with an emphasis on multimedia, so there's a lot of video editing and dealing with photoshop images 10,000+ x 10,000+ on both OSX Leopard (Hackintosh ftw) and Vista Ultimate 64-bit, 8gb RAM is both hugely beneficial and supported.
I'll welcome any suggestions for other RAM, CL4 preferrably, and has to be PC2-6400 (for 1:1 with my CPU's FSB)
Edit: I don't think the OCZ Reaper X would fit the board, thanks to a warning on OCZ's site saying it wouldn't, convenietly shown to me by my flatmate moments after I had posted the thread. As such I removed that part of the post. So I went back browsing and found an 8GB kit of OCZ Platinum, at 5-4-4-18. Not CL4, but OCZ have a good reputation of being overclockers, does anyone have any experience getting this type of RAM to 4-4-4-15 or lower?
Further edit: link to the kit http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_8gb_platinum_quad_kit