8GB of OCZ on quadcore 6600 at 3.6GHz possible?

[davexl]

Hi Guys,

I want to get 8GB on my Godbox, running Vista64. Is running 4 x 2GB likely to work at 400FSB? :confused:

I am running P5B-Deluxe & P5K Deluxe systems with 4x1GB of GSkill BHZ right now, with Q6600s overclocked to 3.5 -3.6GHz. It will do almost 1000DDR at 2x1GB, but only 800MHz at 4x1GB.

I am looking at OCZ OCZ2VU8004GK, mostly for cost, but I am worried that as the P5B and P5K don't have dividers less than 1:1, I might be limiting my CPU overclock - I am at 800Mhz right now, with my FSB at 390-400.

I don't want to overclock the memory. Stability and quantity of RAM is more important to me than bandwidth. Everything I do is limited by CPU.

Anyone with any advice?

[AliG]

If you are going to run it at 1:1, you'd just be running the memory at 800mhz, which shouldn't be a problem even for 4 sticks. Generally from what I've seen, only people that oc their memory get difficulty at the higher speeds, but recently i just saw someone pull off 1200mhz on 4*1gb of some nice crucial, so I think you'll be fine

But you should get someone to second this before you purchase anything, as I personally have never used 4 sticks myself (2gb is enough for me)

[freecableguy]

8GB of OCZ on quadcore 6600 at 3.6GHz possible?

Absolutely. I've had a system running this exact configuration. Get 4x2GB of a quality memory that can do DDR-800 and a Q6600. Run 9x400 for 3.6GHz and DDR-800 (1:1) with 5-5-5-12 timings on the memory. I know for sure that the P965 chipset will NOT do 4-4-4-x timings with all four banks populated with double density DIMMs...you'll have to check this on P35 though if you plan on using that chipset. Good luck.

-FCG

[Speederlander]

Hi Guys,

I want to get 8GB on my Godbox, running Vista64. Is running 4 x 2GB likely to work at 400FSB? :confused:

I am running P5B-Deluxe & P5K Deluxe systems with 4x1GB of GSkill BHZ right now, with Q6600s overclocked to 3.5 -3.6GHz. It will do almost 1000DDR at 2x1GB, but only 800MHz at 4x1GB.

I am looking at OCZ OCZ2VU8004GK, mostly for cost, but I am worried that as the P5B and P5K don't have dividers less than 1:1, I might be limiting my CPU overclock - I am at 800Mhz right now, with my FSB at 390-400.

I don't want to overclock the memory. Stability and quantity of RAM is more important to me than bandwidth. Everything I do is limited by CPU.

Anyone with any advice?

I have 8 gig of Mushkin RAM running 1:1 at 475 FSB, QX6700, Vista 64. Rock solid stable.

[davexl]

Thanks so much guys, really appreciate your replies. I thought I would be ok, but theories don't always match reality when it comes to hardware! :yepp:

I just had another thought - should I spend a little more on something that will do 1000MHz, to make it useful on Penryn?

Just thinking ahead to putting a Penryn on my P5K, and maintaining a 50% overclock would require memory that could do 333FSB x 1.5 = 500MHz... which at 4x2GB could be asking a bit much on a budget...

Although spending extra now is no promise that the damn stuff would work in a years time. I might be better off just getting the OCZ and selling it later.

PS_Speederlander - what Mushkin exactly?

[Bei Fei]

I have a EVGA 680i, e6600, 4x2GB gskill cl6, Cpu is at 3.6 400x9 it has been running fine for 6 weeks. I had to bump the ram voltage to make it stable. but then again it is 6-6-6-18. I use it everyday for solidworks which is a very memory intensive program.