novatech are cheap as chips

[Taxation]

i was looking for some high speed low costing RAM, and i found some on the novatech website, the 2X 1gb ocz ddr500 pc4000 stuff, cheapest on the web as far as i can see, all other places are £50 more.

Has anyone overclocked these at all, and if so, how far with all the stock timings, and if u have put a divider, how far have you puched them.

[StuH]

Taxation: I've just bought the same Mainboard as you and I was wondering the same thing. Have you actually bought any of the Novatech RAM? If it works OK with the ASUS A8N-SLI I'll get 2GB and have a play...The stuff you were looking at - is this the memory priced at £52.88 currently (1st June 2006). Thanx.

[Chewie]

Not likely stuh.

Your looking at the novatech generic own brand stuff. Tax is talking about OCZ brand memory.
If you could get 2gb dual channel kit of 500mhz capable ram for £52, i'd question its make and reliability.

Most *power* users or people who tweak stay away from generic ram as you won't get stable performance when OC'd and such (although if you are runnin a lower fsb cpu with higher fsb ram, they wont be too put out and should function nicely for you)

[djgandy]

Taxation said novatech was £50 cheaper. Not that it was £50 :p

Novatech's ram was also samsung last time i bought it.
They probably make all the chips for these "branded" companies anyway.

[StuH]

Thanks chewie and djgandy: I'm getting all the bits and pieces together for a new build, starting with the Asus m'board and an Athlon 64 3700. I want enough memory (1 or 2GB) to cater for most situations. The problem is, reading through the Asus manual (and looking at stuff on their Forum), The A8N-SLI seems quite picky about the type/brand of memory fitted. Can anyone recommend a specific stick of memory that is stable in this board (forget o/c for the moment) - without being stupidly expensive!!!? (and even better if they sell it at Novatech!)

[Taxation]

i would go AM2 if i were you, but if you want ddr1 memory for those old 939 boards then AMD recommend corsair pc3500LL RAM, but im gonna go ocz (cheaper)

if your intent on going 939 then get
AMD 3700 939 (£144.71)
asus a8n32 sli deluxe or premium (£137)/(£110)
2gb ocz ddr500 RAM (157)
nvidia 7900gt (£186)
any hard drive tbh
hiper type R 580W/480W (£61)/(£43)

total will be around £700
and that stuff will last you a year until direct X 10 cards come out and make the 7900gt obsolete, but that setup will be very good.

[Chewie]

Lol

Tax, just cause a change in Dx series comes out, and they cater cards to suit, doesnt reduce the life of your pc.

Heck, that setup will last for 3 years and still be good. Yea it may not be as fast as newer stuff, but thats a battle no one wins unless your a millionaire.

And then you just spend £7k on a pc thats so overclocked, if your cooling fails it'll die before you can switch it off.

Crikey, my machine may not be the hottest, but its still good for everything i do.

Agree with the M2 part, Thats what i'd go for, but my choice would be an MSI board, but thats my preference.