underclocking & undervolting DDR3

cokecan · 9 Feb 2012 at 13:16

Hi guys

It's been a fair few years since I've done any overclocking or similar (I'm talking socket A kinda stuff!) so after a bit of advice really.

I'm looking at building a very low power/low heat system, I have my eyes on a decent low power ITX board that has support for up to 8gb DDR3 1066mhz ram. Now I already have 8gb DDR3 1600mhz so could I underclock and undervolt it to run at 1066mhz instead?

Thanks in advance

cokecan · 9 Feb 2012 at 14:45

I was looking at an Intel DH67CF ITX mobo paired with 2x4GB Geil DDR3 value I already have: http://www.geil.com.tw/products/show/id/273

cokecan · 9 Feb 2012 at 19:32

will the mobo automatically set any of these to the max speed the cpu and chipset support or will it be better if I set it myself in the bios?

cokecan · 9 Feb 2012 at 21:43

ok thanks guys. I have 2x4gb sticks. looking at bundling a i3 2120T with the intel board and this ram to use as a media PC and file server but to also run a few VM's on so looking to have plenty of ram for that. Hopefully I'll have a decent idle power consumption and a load power consumption that's still damn low.