1600MHz

[KingGnome]

Uh was there any reason I just bought the g.skill ddr3 1600MHz 7-7-7-18 ram? I was just told it will run at 800Mhz on my system? is there anyways to make it go faster? not duel cahnnel any info would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

[HuffPCair]

just go into BIOS at the start up of your system and then change the mhz of your ram

[dengyong]

800x2(double data rate/ddr)=1600

[HuffPCair]

I think he wants to run it faster doesnt he? If he just wanted to know that then yeah your right..

[KingGnome]

Well a friend said there no reason to buy the ddr3 1600 becouse it's will only run at 800Mhz and unless i have a i7 chip it's useless. Is that true? He recommended I used the 1066MHz

[dengyong]

Your friend is wrong, I,m running the same memory at 1640mhz :up:
90882 90883

[Broken]

Well a friend said there no reason to buy the ddr3 1600 becouse it's will only run at 800Mhz and unless i have a i7 chip it's useless. Is that true? He recommended I used the 1066MHz

Well, that 1066 memory will run at a cool 533Mhz... You made a good choice.

[KingGnome]

so ddr2 800 would be 400 each way and this would be twice as fast as that?

[Sailindawg]

so ddr2 800 would be 400 each way and this would be twice as fast as that?

Data throughput on DDR3 is 8 bit per clock cycle vs 4 bit per clock cycle on DDR2. Data throughput is 2x as fast with DDR3 than DDR2. Do not let the timings fool you. 8-8-8-24 at >1600 fsb is not slow. DDR3 provides for much more bandwidth than DDR2. DDR2 is dirt cheap, but overall DDR3 is faster RAM with more bandwidth. If you are running a quad core cpu, DDR3 RAM provides sufficient bandwidth for the bandwidth of the quad core. On an i7 platform, DDR3 provides about twice the bandwidth one sees on a X48 chipset. i7 platform provides an amazing amount of bandwidth.

The 1600 DDR3 RAM that you purchased will allow you to use one of the straps when overclocking your cpu to maintain a 1:1 ratio versus having to run RAM at a fsb using a divider.

[KingGnome]

So is it possable to put 8gigs of this stuff in the mobo? or can it really only use 4? I haven't seen anyoine listing 8 on their specs.

[Sailindawg]

So is it possable to put 8gigs of this stuff in the mobo? or can it really only use 4? I haven't seen anyoine listing 8 on their specs.

It depends upon what your chipset can support. My x48 chipset can support 8G. You better have a 64 bit OS if you are going that route.