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I have XFX HD5770 that I picked up on ebay for half price due to a faulty fan - the snag was that it spins 100% all the time. Thats not really a worry to me and the price resulting from that was incredible 62 GBP including Postage as opposed to new 5770's retailing at over 120 GBP.
I did a little bit of a search and found out that what Azuza said about DDR3 is true...
I don't quite understand why higher bandwidth DDR3 doesn't improve speed - it actually is slower than equivalent DDR2 modules.
Yet I could buy 8GB of them and a suitable board for the price of 4GB DDR2 modules I need to be able to overclock past 2.21ghz.
My current memory requires CL7 to run properly and my board can only support up to CL5-ish (board is Asus P5KPL-am - bought for 26 GBP). So it gets stuck at 310 FSB and due to timings and things, it just won't clock higher.. There would be no point buying Q9550 NOW as it would be running underclocked. But as soon as I can resolve this RAM situation and clock past 1333, mission is a go.
I did a little bit of a search and found out that what Azuza said about DDR3 is true...
I don't quite understand why higher bandwidth DDR3 doesn't improve speed - it actually is slower than equivalent DDR2 modules.
Yet I could buy 8GB of them and a suitable board for the price of 4GB DDR2 modules I need to be able to overclock past 2.21ghz.
My current memory requires CL7 to run properly and my board can only support up to CL5-ish (board is Asus P5KPL-am - bought for 26 GBP). So it gets stuck at 310 FSB and due to timings and things, it just won't clock higher.. There would be no point buying Q9550 NOW as it would be running underclocked. But as soon as I can resolve this RAM situation and clock past 1333, mission is a go.