Memory for Sandy Bridge platform?

2StepSteve · 2 Jan 2011 at 02:13

I have decided I will stagger the purchase of parts over the coming months and I look towards moving from an E6300 to a Sandy Bridge CPU.

I know there are no solid answers right now as we need to wait.

BUT

What memory should I buy right now now for it?

Cheers

liamgo · 2 Jan 2011 at 03:06

from what i read when i looked into moving to sandbridge the memory aspect hasnt changed so its between your usual ddr3 1333mhz/1600mhz/2000mhz.

Steve0 · 3 Jan 2011 at 00:27

You will need dual channel and not triple channel memory.

Troezar · 4 Jan 2011 at 07:24

What I'm wondering is will 1600MHz be enough to not bottleneck any part of a Sandy Bridge system?

MumboJumbo · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:09

The sandy bridge is running at 100FSB as far as i'm aware. That means the only way to hit the required speeds of any of these ram modules is through dividers. Simply put, none of them will bottleneck a sandy bridge. Also ram speed and latancey shows no noticeable difference in gaming anyway.

Steve0 said:
You will need dual channel and not triple channel memory.

Are they not doing tri-channel mobos for sandy bridge? I was hoping to get 3x2gb. Damn.

pingu666 · 5 Jan 2011 at 06:22

from looking about, a uneducated guesstimate puts 1600mhz stuff as best bang for buck, imo

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-292-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387 or that, if you pushing the boat out abit