What memory? DDR3

Shocky-FM · 28 May 2009 at 10:00

New system with Core i7 920 and mostly likely Asus P6T X58, what memory would you recommend? for decent overclocking...

Thanks..

gurusan · 28 May 2009 at 10:27

This kit is quite good value
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-008-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1389

Shocky-FM · 28 May 2009 at 10:30

gurusan said:
This kit is quite good value
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-008-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1389

Decent price, is there much need for faster memory then 12800? to reach around 4GHz?

ro55o · 28 May 2009 at 10:37

Shocky-FM said:
Decent price, is there much need for faster memory then 12800? to reach around 4GHz?

To reach 4GHz, 1600MHz memory will be fine, you should be able to achieve that no problem. I've got myself some 2000MHz, but haven't really pushed it to it's extents, hopefully can get quite a big overclock with it

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-159-OC

555BUK · 28 May 2009 at 11:35

Because there is so much memory bandwidth on a triple-channel DDR3/i7 setup, there is very little gain from using expensive ram. Just get the cheapest PC3-12800 (1600MHz) stuff you can find that operates at 1.65v or lower.