Hi
I've been planning to buy a new DDR3 system later this year, and most things are sorted, but I had no clue whatsoever about how the ram speeds and so on worked. Looked up a load of websites, and eventually got together some kind of idea about how it all worked, but I could really do with someone checking it over and letting me know if I've got anything right or not. I posted up on a couple of other forums, but nobody responded... so either they hate me or I bored them so much they gave up before the end of my post
I was hoping someone here might be able to help
I'm probably looking at a Gigabyte P35T DQ6 and an e6750. So with that processor, it runs at a stock bus speed of 333mhz quad pumped to 1333mhz, but it looks like it's possible to achieve a bus speed of around 500mhz (again, just for the sake of my maths)
In that case, a FSB : DRAM ratio of 1:1 would give me ram at a frequency of 500mhz, and as such DDR3 1066 should work perfectly well, being that 500*2 is 1000. Or alternatively I could set an FSB : DRAM ratio of 5:8, getting me ram at a frequency of 800mhz, and use DDR3 1600 instead.
Presumably in the 5:8 alternative, I'm sacrificing tight timings for a higher clock speed. But at the same time, I've heard that 1:1 is the ideal ratio for C2D processors. So what I'm trying to discover is firstly, whether my maths actually makes any sense, as I didn't understand any of this ram speed business a little while back, and secondly which option makes more sense.
Any help would be really appreciated
I've been planning to buy a new DDR3 system later this year, and most things are sorted, but I had no clue whatsoever about how the ram speeds and so on worked. Looked up a load of websites, and eventually got together some kind of idea about how it all worked, but I could really do with someone checking it over and letting me know if I've got anything right or not. I posted up on a couple of other forums, but nobody responded... so either they hate me or I bored them so much they gave up before the end of my post
I was hoping someone here might be able to help
I'm probably looking at a Gigabyte P35T DQ6 and an e6750. So with that processor, it runs at a stock bus speed of 333mhz quad pumped to 1333mhz, but it looks like it's possible to achieve a bus speed of around 500mhz (again, just for the sake of my maths)
In that case, a FSB : DRAM ratio of 1:1 would give me ram at a frequency of 500mhz, and as such DDR3 1066 should work perfectly well, being that 500*2 is 1000. Or alternatively I could set an FSB : DRAM ratio of 5:8, getting me ram at a frequency of 800mhz, and use DDR3 1600 instead.
Presumably in the 5:8 alternative, I'm sacrificing tight timings for a higher clock speed. But at the same time, I've heard that 1:1 is the ideal ratio for C2D processors. So what I'm trying to discover is firstly, whether my maths actually makes any sense, as I didn't understand any of this ram speed business a little while back, and secondly which option makes more sense.
Any help would be really appreciated