Specifically made Sandy Bridge RAM???

[Bocephus]

Had someone reply to my reply in someones post about RAM.

I was told "sandy bridge ram isnt new mate its the same ddr3 from 1156

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I have been seeing manufacturers say stuff like this...My link

There not the only manufacturers to say this. What is really going on here? Are they specifically made for SB CPU's or is this a frigging gimmic. Can you guys help me understand

 

[thestepster]

my reply was to a review i watched when they were sayin all you need to upgrade is your cpu and motherboard and chuck in your old 1156 ram in there as its the same stuff

 

[Armgame]

Sandy bridge still has ddr3 ram, same as LGA 1156 and 1366, differance is SB supports higher speed ram, as I believe its somehwere in the 2300MHz

Correct me if Im wrong :>

While others only suppoert up to 2000MHz and nothing higher

 

[thestepster]

2133 triple channel there

http://www.it247.com/product/1/OCZM...t-memory-6-GB-3-x-2-GB-DIMM-240-pin-DDR3.html

 

[tinytomlogan]

You can use the normal ram but people are pushing out 1866 and 2133 sandy specific 1.5v kits now. Doesnt really matter what you use but with no bclk clocking its just a case of divider changes with sandy ram now.

 

[Bocephus]

OK. thank you guys very much for clearing that up for me. I feel like I'm in the know now.

So the only real difference is speed and voltage. Are they backwards compatible? Meaning can you use them in non SB applications and still get the faster speed and better voltage?

 

[marick626]

OK. thank you guys very much for clearing that up for me. I feel like I'm in the know now.

So the only real difference is speed and voltage. Are they backwards compatible? Meaning can you use them in non SB applications and still get the faster speed and better voltage?

What are sandy Bridge applications? Faster memory speeds will affect every application that uses memory effectively. Isn't that how its supposed to work?

 

[Bocephus]

What are sandy Bridge applications? Faster memory speeds will affect every application that uses memory effectively. Isn't that how its supposed to work?

Lol...sorry for confusion

ummmm...yea I get that, common sense really but not what I was asking.

It's my fault, I should have been more clear. I shouldn't have said "South Bridge Applications, I should have should have worded it ...are they backwards compatible on non Sandy Bridge platforme, ie...non Sandy Bridge Mobo's and CPU's?

 

[noblemen1984]

I was watching the Gigabyte UD7 review and I saw the Kingston Hyper x grey series and I was just wondering what you thought of their performance since I cant seem to find any reviews of them yet. I am building a brand new system with a Gigabyte UD5 and 2500k so I was thinking that they would look rather nice in there I just wanted to know if you think faster ram is the way to go at the moment.

 

[sadbuttrue]

Intel Nehalem chips have tons of memory bandwidth even if you run everything stock. In any benchmark I've seen they absolutely cream AMD in that regard. The logical conclusion is: the number of situations where memory is likely to bottleneck any other component tends towards ZERO. Sweating memory speeds and fretting about latency and so on is of benefit only to the manufacturers of memory.

IMnsHO of course. If you have information that proves me wrong I'd like to see it.

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