RAM, CPU, MOBO fsb bottleneck.

[nadirshakur]

1st wanna say hi. Been quite some time since i posted since most of the time I find my answers before posting.

That said, here's my issue. I got an e8400 and an Asus P5Q3. I am looking for RAM (mine fried), I am not sure what speed they were. Anyway, is there a point of going with ram higher than 1333-10666 since my e8400's fsb is 1333? The board says is supports 2000(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066/800 for ram and up to 1600 for fsb. What does o.c. mean, overclocked? Where would the bottleneck be?

Assuming I want to get another board, (this one's been kinda' ify). What combo of board and ram would u get? Lots of gaming, video encoding and multitasking, no overclocking. Not looking to spend millions but the best $/performance and upgradeablity on the board would be nice.

I use these sites for products mostly but willing to try others, Canada sucks for availability.

http://www.canadacomputers.com
http://www.ncix.com
http://www.memoryexpress.com
http://www.b-com.ca/

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: nadirshakur
What does o.c. mean, overclocked?

Yup.

If you want memory running faster than the stock frontside bus you have to either up the bus speed or increase the multiplier on the memory - if your board allows that.

Where would the bottleneck be?

To be honest tweaking memory speed and latency doesn't make as much difference as it used to. Or that's how it seems at least. The reason you might need to overclock the memory anyway is that you probably can't increase your multiplier to the CPU, so you need to up the bus speed to raise the CPU speed, which in turn raises the memory speed.

If you didn't get all that, or don't care, then just buy loads (4GB or more) of cheap value memory from a good manufacturer like Crucial or Corsair or OCZ.