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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I'm looking at getting a new computer and I might be able to get an intel E6750 CPU and I'm wondering about my ram options.
I'm a little confused here, the CPU runs at 2.66GHz with 1333MHz FSB (333MHz x 8) but the motherboard I am looking at only supports DDR2 667/800. Do I double these numbers to see what FSB the system is capable of? If I got a set of ram that was DDR2 800 (Why is this called PC2-6400??? So confusing), could I run 400MHz x 8 = 3.2GHz effectively?
I used to be into all this years ago but I haven't bought a new system for 3-4 years so I am still stuck in the AMD64 and DDR1 era where things seemed simpler.
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Pc2-6400 is an indication of it's total bandwidth as with the tricks they do with clock generation can result in more data being passed per tick than usual.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/24...verclock-guide
Yes you will have to fiddle with the dram/fsb ratio so that it runs a 1:1 clock in order to get 400mhz fsb.
as a rough guide, halving the ddr2-667/800 number will give you the reference clock speed generated by the board.
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Last edited by Cliche; 10-24-2009 at 04:11 PM.
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