Hey, I'm hoping someone a bit more knowledgable than me on the subject can help me out here. I don't fully understand the implications of the memory divider in my BIOS and how lowering it (To achieve higher FSB) affects performance.
My Spec:
Core2 Duo 2180 (2.0Ghz x10 Multi)
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
Geil 6400 (800Mhz) RAM
I currently set the RAM divider to 3.33 and the frequency to 266Mhz this allows my CPU to run a 2.6Ghz (266Mhz x 10) while my RAM to run at (~885Mhz) keeping it only slightly over it's 800Mhz rating.
Now, I could set my RAM divider to 2, this would keep my CPU speed the same but would make my RAM run at ~532Mhz - would this give me a performance hit?
I frequently see people in the OC forum suggesting dropping the RAM multi to 2 (Sometimes even 1!) so that the FSB frequency can be raised to achieve very high clock speeds. Surely this hinders memory bandwidth (As it always means running your memory <800Mhz) so why do people suggest it? Is it purely that the benefits of high clock speed outweigh memory bandwidth?
Hopefully that's clear and someone can explain this to me!
Thanks!
My Spec:
Core2 Duo 2180 (2.0Ghz x10 Multi)
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R
Geil 6400 (800Mhz) RAM
I currently set the RAM divider to 3.33 and the frequency to 266Mhz this allows my CPU to run a 2.6Ghz (266Mhz x 10) while my RAM to run at (~885Mhz) keeping it only slightly over it's 800Mhz rating.
Now, I could set my RAM divider to 2, this would keep my CPU speed the same but would make my RAM run at ~532Mhz - would this give me a performance hit?
I frequently see people in the OC forum suggesting dropping the RAM multi to 2 (Sometimes even 1!) so that the FSB frequency can be raised to achieve very high clock speeds. Surely this hinders memory bandwidth (As it always means running your memory <800Mhz) so why do people suggest it? Is it purely that the benefits of high clock speed outweigh memory bandwidth?
Hopefully that's clear and someone can explain this to me!
Thanks!