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Old 10-25-2009, 12:49 AM   #5
cal_guy
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
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.
Short answer yes as long you set your DRAM ratio as 1:1 or DDR667 in your motherboard bios. Any reason why your getting an E6750 since it's a two year old processor?
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