OC'ing ram question.

[P4Clock]

Hi, my friend is having problem over clocking his system he think its the ram holding it back.

spec:
i7 920 @ Stock, max OC 3ghz
ASUS P6X58D-E
XMS3 1600mhz 6gb 3 x 2gb

if he was to get some 2100mhz ram would it run in the system that will only support 1600mhz, and if he set the speed to 1600mhz and OC'ed the CPU would the ram go higher or was there be problems with the system trying to run a lot over the max ram MHZ

 

[wazza300]

its not the ram

running 2100mhz ram speed might be very difficult even impossible on x58,most they will do with safe vtt voltage would be 2000mhz

when you overclock you raise the cpu bclk,this also increases the memory speed so you have to find the right bclk/cpu multi that gives you roughly the same rated ram speed

so for example 180 bclk x 8x ram multi = 1440mhz ram speed and so on

what speed did he want to clock to on the cpu?

 

[P4Clock]

its not the ram

running 2100mhz ram speed might be very difficult even impossible on x58,most they will do with safe vtt voltage would be 2000mhz

when you overclock you raise the cpu bclk,this also increases the memory speed so you have to find the right bclk/cpu multi that gives you roughly the same rated ram speed

so for example 180 bclk x 8x ram multi = 1440mhz ram speed and so on

what speed did he want to clock to on the cpu?

well he was wanting as high as possible, but he can only get it to run 100mhz faster then the boost.

what would be the setting for 3.3ghz, we her of ppl running 4ghz+. but don t think this chip is upto it

 

[tyler_jrb]

Its not the ram, truthfully the system wouldnt run a great deal faster even on 2400mhz, id say its the cpu as its oc at 3ghz, which isnt great. Most i7s run at 3.9-4ghz on boost and 4.5ghz easily on oc depending on cooling. Is it a quad, dual, single core as that would also affect this. The ram wouldnt affect max cpu overclock considering its at 1600mhz, if he wants better cpu oc then get a better cpu.