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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: peter michaelson who wrote (3118)	10/20/1998 2:06:00 AM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Peter that price sounds good. The ram I buy for a standard P2 system (not overclocked) is about that same price, today it was at $168 for 128 meg wholesale. When overclocking the ram is very important. On a couple of systems ram has been the limiting component preventing me from going to higher clock and bus speeds. On the system I am running for trading I decided to pay just a bit more and use ram proven in overclocking. It is all Samsung (chips and board) as opposed to Samsung chips assembled by someone else. This costs more. The site I noted in a previous post outlines clearly ram specs for Oc'ing. bxboards.pair.com The TI ram you bought may comply, depends on the exact specs it has. Overclocking may seem trivial and unnecessary by some, but after getting somewhat bored working with and building systems daily for years, it is kind of fun and exciting again to go "out on the edge" For me it is quite a rush to match components and achieve a rock solid, speed demon using normal of the shelf parts. All this without having to shell out $700 for a 450 mhz P2 alone! And my systems runs as good as or better than one! But granted, it is not for everyone. There are no guarantees and you have to be primed and ready for failure, especially at the upper speeds. But it is cool. Kind of like supercharging that Chevy Hot Rod way back in high school. :-) Thanks Dan