Sandybridge overclocking

[Troezar]

This may be a bit of an obvious question but if you wanted to overclock for example a Sandybridge 2500K cpu would the speed of your memory limit it the cpu overclock?

What I'm getting at is if you ran say 1600MHz rather than 2000MHz RAM would you see a noticeable difference?

 

[DragonQ]

The CPU multiplier is unlocked so you don't need to mess with the base clock. Thus, the RAM can run at default settings with the standard base clock and multiplier (e.g. 133x12 = 1600 MHz RAM, with the CPU multiplier at 30 for 4 GHz).

 

[Troezar]

The CPU multiplier is unlocked so you don't need to mess with the base clock. Thus, the RAM can run at default settings with the standard base clock and multiplier (e.g. 133x12 = 1600 MHz RAM, with the CPU multiplier at 30 for 4 GHz).

Right, would the slower RAM impact the speed the cpu can process i.e. would it bottleneck it?

 

[Michaeljcox24]

I guess memory has an access speed, so faster memory will mean the CPU has to wait less often for data, less waiting, things move faster.

Like in all walks of life really.