Conroe Question

[Oliet_No1]

IF (and it is an IF), i changed to a 6300 - would my DDR2 667mhz memory be an issue for the overclocking?

And if it was what ball park overclock could i expect?

 

[silversurfer]

ddr2 667 so thats 333fsb on a 1:1 ratio.

7x333=2.3ghz

Thats ok but fairly mild. Depends on the ram but ddr2 overclocks well in general which might mean the next step is possible on timings, ie 400mhz

7x400=2.8ghz

Thats much more like it and a decent overclock.


Combine that with a 975x chipset, you can do a 5:4 ratio which makes 400mhz on the ram a 500mhz on the fsb and thats world class then

3.5ghz


I'd say you'll be ok, no need to spend money on more ram till you actually hit your head on a ceiling anywhere.



The 650i/680i and rd600 chipsets will let you set fsb and memory speeds totally seperately. You generally only need large amounts of memory bandwidth when heavily multitasking but of course the faster it goes the better. I'm making do with large amounts of ddr2 533 which overclocks to 333mhz for me - can always upgrade in time

 

[easyrider]

IF (and it is an IF), i changed to a 6300 - would my DDR2 667mhz memory be an issue for the overclocking?

And if it was what ball park overclock could i expect?

you rally need some nice DDR2 6400 if tou want to reach 3ghz +

 

[steve258]

Combine that with a 975x chipset, you can do a 5:4 ratio which makes 400mhz on the ram a 500mhz on the fsb and thats world class then

Having the 5:4 divider is nice but 975X chipset is not very famous for doing 500Mhz at all, I've only seen DFI 975X done that before.