Shiney Fast speeds

Juicy · 30 Jul 2007 at 23:11

I'm keeping my beady eyes on the beast that is the 3Ghz Intel quad with a tasty fsb of 1333. Now....
It's been a while and just coming back into things in terms of hardware. Last time I bought RAM there wasn't any DDR2 even available! So needless to say I'm a wee bit baffled.
If I go an get myself a CPU and mobo capable of churning out a FSB of 1333, am I going to be able to run PC8500 DDR2? Will I be doing myself an injustice (or worse) or is that just the way of the world at the moment?

:eek:

thefishdude · 31 Jul 2007 at 00:31

you can run slower memory on that also. the fsb is quadpumped soo in reality the fsb is 333mhz as standardthis is tyhen doubled to make a ram speed of 667mhz if you use the ram divider set at 1:1.

pc6400 ram would be good but if you intending to do some good overlocking then the pc8500 would give you better scope to achieve this

Thorne · 1 Aug 2007 at 05:15

I just got the QX6850 on a Gigabyte P35-DQ6 with 4 Gig of Geil Black Dragon 1066 PC8500C5 and works like a dream.

Juicy · 5 Aug 2007 at 12:14

Nice board, and although not the place to talk about mobos, I reckon the Striker Extreme beats it by a margin on stock. O/C'd there's no comparison, but I don't plan on O/Cing and like gimmicks like the rear LCD

V|per · 5 Aug 2007 at 12:46

The striker isn't that good tbh, you'd be better off getting a p35 based board...

If you weren't clocking, pc5300 ram would be fine for the cpu. crucial ballistix pc5300 continually overclocks to 1000mhz, and, i really dont think you'll need any more than that, as quad's rarely (if ever at all) clock to 500mhz fsb....