RAM speed and Timing

[DT-525]

Hi i have very little knowledge about these sort of things that's why i have joined this site because people seem to know what they are on about. I no what MHz and GHz are but what do they all mean when used in conjunction with a a CPU running at certain speeds. I heard that you need you RAM speed to be a certain speed when using a CPU at a certain speed and that you can only 2 ram sockets if you got a over clock of 4.00GHz.

I am asking this because the bundle that i'm getting have a core i3 over clocked @4.20GHz and the ram is 4GB Mushkin Silverline 1333MHz. I'm thinking of getting another 4GB of RAM the same make and model of cores. I was just wondering would the system be able to handle this amount of RAM with this overclock of the CPU.

This is the bundle.

• Intel® Core™ i3-540 Overclocked @ 4.20GHz - Dual Core CPU

• 4GB Mushkin Silverline 1333MHz 9-9-9-24

• MSI H55M-ED55 Micro-ATX Motherboard

Will i lose any performance if a add two more sticks of RAM.

Thanks Dean

 

[Ezzy-525]

Hi i have very little knowledge about these sort of things that's why i have joined this site because people seem to know what they are on about. I no what MHz and GHz are but what do they all mean when used in conjunction with a a CPU running at certain speeds. I heard that you need you RAM speed to be a certain speed when using a CPU at a certain speed and that you can only 2 ram sockets if you got a over clock of 4.00GHz.

I am asking this because the bundle that i'm getting have a core i3 over clocked @4.20GHz and the ram is 4GB Mushkin Silverline 1333MHz. I'm thinking of getting another 4GB of RAM the same make and model of cores. I was just wondering would the system be able to handle this amount of RAM with this overclock of the CPU.

This is the bundle.

• Intel® Core™ i3-540 Overclocked @ 4.20GHz - Dual Core CPU

• 4GB Mushkin Silverline 1333MHz 9-9-9-24

• MSI H55M-ED55 Micro-ATX Motherboard

Will i lose any performance if a add two more sticks of RAM.

Thanks Dean

Very good question DT-525, I hope someone knows the answer to this interesting question.

 

[lasher]

Really unless your doing some serious editing with that bundle you wont need it dude.

With an I3 you shouldn't be doing much other than gaming, general stuff etc.

Save your coin for a top line GPU. ( Nvidia and fold on it

)

Or a SSD boot drive.

What PSU do you have?

 

[deejay500sl]

Ah the system bundle tinytomlogan had on youtube

4GB is plenty 8GB = overkill if you don't need it.

 

[DT-525]

Really unless your doing some serious editing with that bundle you wont need it dude.

With an I3 you shouldn't be doing much other than gaming, general stuff etc.

Save your coin for a top line GPU. ( Nvidia and fold on it

)

Or a SSD boot drive.

What PSU do you have?

The PSU is either a:

Corsair TX Series 650W ATX2.2 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply

Corsair TX Series 750W ATX2.2 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply

XFX Pro Series 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Single Rail

XFX Pro Series 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Single Rail

What do u think, which one should i get.

And i no 8gb is overkill i'm being silly. Its just i want to keep this computer for a while.

 

[lasher]

XFX a no no dude

Go with which ever on the corsair.

Your pennies

HX are the modular range if required.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/power_supply/corsair_hx650w_650w_atx_psu/1

 

[Ezzy-525]

I have noticed that people on here don't seem to be showing any love to anything XFX, why is that?

Not to sound shallow and pedantic, but for the price XFX always seem like a good buy to me anyway.

 

[lasher]

When we tested their PSU's they er well lets say they didn't perform as well as they should have.

Known knowns really Corsair advertise their products correctly and perform admirably with a decent price point.

Therefore I can recommend them without having owned one personally.

I really cannot remember anyone having issues with them.

 

[BigIan88]

I have noticed that people on here don't seem to be showing any love to anything XFX, why is that?

Not to sound shallow and pedantic, but for the price XFX always seem like a good buy to me anyway.

XFX have a bad hammit of churning out the cheapest products in a given range, however it comes at a price as alot of people find thier products are substandard quality and often have to RMA said product.

Luckily XFX have a great warrenty which most will make the most out of - Nvidia went as far as dropping thier contract with XFX due to thier standard of quality and fault rates.

 

[lasher]

Wanna see OC3D's Jim testing one of XFX's PSU?

Watch the vid

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/power_supply/xfx_black_edition_850w_atx_psu/4