Browsing the Shop, and no DDR2 1333?

ShiWarrior · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:10

Hi

as im looking to upgrade in the near future, i was pondering about the 3 that I will replace, CPU, RAM and motherboard

and im sure i that if I bought the dual Core DUO 1333 FSB rated CPU, i do not see any RAM that is rated to that speed or am i blind?

Deluxe1 · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:26

Any memory from DDR2 - PC2-5300 upwards will do.

DavidB · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:31

not blind, just interpreting data wrong.

The DDR2 ram is dual data rate, so has a real FSB speed of half that stated, where as the CPU is quad pumped, so 4x that of the real FSB speed.

ShiWarrior · 1 Dec 2007 at 22:55

DavidB said:
not blind, just interpreting data wrong.

The DDR2 ram is dual data rate, so has a real FSB speed of half that stated, where as the CPU is quad pumped, so 4x that of the real FSB speed.

I can see now

of course! its ddr2 but the shop should really list it one form or another

so 667's are the right ones

Deluxe1 · 1 Dec 2007 at 23:02

Yes but if you are planning to overclock then get something from the 6400 range.

ShiWarrior · 1 Dec 2007 at 23:04

Deluxe1 said:
Yes but if you are planning to overclock then get something from the 6400 range.

oh year deff! i remeber the good old days, had PC3500 BH1 RAM overclocked to its limits!

Tute · 2 Dec 2007 at 02:15

ShiWarrior said:
I can see now

of course! its ddr2 but the shop should really list it one form or another

so 667's are the right ones

No!

Ignore the fact it's DDR2. What's important is the PC rating, i.e PC5300.

You need to divide the PC rating by 16 to get it's maximum rated speed in MHz.

For example.

PC3200 = 200MHz (400MHz effective).
PC5300 = 333MHz (666MHz effective).

And so on...

Reality|Bites · 4 Dec 2007 at 14:15

BH-5

Vir · 4 Dec 2007 at 15:17

Ah you searching for this?

http://www.vrforums.com/showthread.php?t=210465

Hahah