Adding 6GB RAM to an OC Bundle?

[Festisio]

Evening,

I bought this bundle a few months back:

OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz @ 4.20GHz Max / Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 Motherboard / Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle

I'm just wondering about the logistics of adding 6GB more of the Corsair XMS3 RAM.

I'm not massively clued up oo the OC'ing angle, but I believe some aspects of the OC would need to change if I was to install 6GB more.

Can anyone advise?

thanks

 

[Festisio]

Yeah, the cpu clockspeed is probably going to go down, and the ram frequency definitely will. Look for 4.0ghz cpu, 1200mhz ram after a fair amount of time spent tweaking. It's possible to do better than this, but rare.

If you don't need the additional 6gb, stay with what you have now. It'll be slower if you put more ram in.

1200mhz you say! I seem to currently be on much lower than that

A picture paints a thousand words as they say

The reason I'd like more RAM is I'm doing more VM work than I initially thought and it's surprising how quickly 6GB can be eaten up iwth a few of them running.

 

[Festisio]

Thanks for the replies folks, lots of good info!

 

[Festisio]

I'm sure I'll be back once I've ordered these to seek your expert advice re: overclocking since I'm probably going to run into troubles!

 

[Festisio]

Having tried 12Gb on our overclocked bundles they more often than done fail to work on high overclocks.

The on board memory controller on the CPU's don't tend to be able to handle all 12Gb of memory at high speeds, you may get 3.8Ghz tops but don't expect 4.2Ghz unless you have a godly chip.

Also please note changing the bios overclock settings or adding in more memory will invalidate your 1 year warranty you have on the bundle sorry.

phil

And has that specifically been the case on the i7 920 D0?

I am pretty sure I'm not "in tune" enough with my PC to notice a drop from 4.00Ghz to 3.80Ghz so that downside wouldn't bother me per se.