I'm a little confused about core duo cpus, memory and overclocking.
As I understand it, multipliers are locked, so if I bought a conroe 6600 and 6400 ram I'd have to run at 9*400fsb to run the ram at 1:1. That's 3.6 GHZ!! (Or can multipliers be lowered??)
So I could run the ram on a divider and lower the FSB to say 320 (4:5), but then isn't it just worth then getting the 5300 ram instead anyway?? Is there actually any performance benefit to running ram on a divider??
But if I'm clocking to 2880MHZ, surely I'd be better off with the much cheaper 6300 CPU, go back up to OCing at 7*400fsb and run the 6400 ram at 1:1?
What's the best way to go and what are the advantages / disadvantages.
As I see it, only the 4mb cache is a differing factor. Unless I can clock a 6600 to 3.6GHZ, there's no reason not to go for the 6300 and slower ram instead.
I think.
I'm puzzled.
As I understand it, multipliers are locked, so if I bought a conroe 6600 and 6400 ram I'd have to run at 9*400fsb to run the ram at 1:1. That's 3.6 GHZ!! (Or can multipliers be lowered??)
So I could run the ram on a divider and lower the FSB to say 320 (4:5), but then isn't it just worth then getting the 5300 ram instead anyway?? Is there actually any performance benefit to running ram on a divider??
But if I'm clocking to 2880MHZ, surely I'd be better off with the much cheaper 6300 CPU, go back up to OCing at 7*400fsb and run the 6400 ram at 1:1?
What's the best way to go and what are the advantages / disadvantages.
As I see it, only the 4mb cache is a differing factor. Unless I can clock a 6600 to 3.6GHZ, there's no reason not to go for the 6300 and slower ram instead.
I think.
I'm puzzled.
