SLI Memory

[afterimagemike]

I have a p5n-e sli with two 8800gt's. Right now I have 6 gigs of memory, 2x1 mushkin sticks and 2x2 ocz sli memory (all are ddr2-800)

I am looking to replace the two mushkin non sli ready sticks with more OCZ ram.

Right now there are two 2x2sticks of ocz ram on newegg. I do not remember which one I bought and I am wondering which one I should get.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227269

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227377

They are VERY similar in performace and price, and I am assuming I have the sticks with the 318 reviews, because I bought these in the summer.

Any suggestions?

 

[flyin15sec]

IMO. Don't buy more ram of the same speed. I assume you do gaming since you have 2x8800GTs, 6 gig is plenty for nearly all games, heck 4gigs is still plenty.

Without knowing the rest of your system, I say, save your money, move on to a Quad system, with DDR3.

 

[Proximon]

First off, there is no such thing as "SLI memory". It's a marketing gimmick. It's like owning an Eddie Bauer edition SUV... it doesn't actually make you a better outdoorsman.

Secondly, both those sets you list are over-volted. DDR2 800 should be 1.8V or at most 1.9V.

Third, if your system is stable and the RAM is actually running at 800Mhz, that's all you get. You can't make the RAM appreciably faster. If the FSB can be pushed on that board to 400Mhz, then you might have an overclock that would speed up the system... I'm not very familiar with the older NVidia chipsets.

 

[jitpublisher]

Waste of money, as stated there is nothing special about SLI memory, it is just as Proximon said, a marketing gimmick.
You are just fine as-is in the memory department.
If you are looking for a performance gain, put the money somewhere else.
What does the rest of your build look like? Perhaps we could suggest an upgrade that would be much more beneficial.

 

[afterimagemike]

The rest of the system is q6600 @ stock speeds, I have not found a single way to overclock this and it makes me a bit mad. Even through the bios, I set the fsb to 1333 and when windows (64bit) boots it shows as 2.4 in cpuz and in everest ultimate. other than that I have a 500g hd with 16mb cache.

 

[jitpublisher]

Did you disable speed step? Are you keeping your memory running at the correct speed by setting the divider correctly? You did turn off the auto-configuration for the CPU and memory, correct?