sooo its better to have the speed of your FSB and your RAM match? Or would the faster the ram the better?
Big Dawg
sooo its better to have the speed of your FSB and your RAM match? Or would the faster the ram the better?
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It's best to run your ram base frequency at the same as your FSB base frequency. In Lamsey's example above, that would be 200MHz giving a ram speed of 400MHz and an FSB speed of 800MHz.
But if you are going to overclock, it would be better to get memory which is capable of higher speeds, simply because it is harder to control instability and temperatures in memory than on the cpu.
If you overclock a 200MHz based system by 25%, you need memory capable of providing PC4000 performance, in order to match the memory and FSB frequencies.
But memory with that sort of performance will not give you any benefit if you aren't overclocking.
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Ive decided on getting some nice PC3700 DDR RAM but how much?? 512 Megs or 1 Gig??? My machine is mainly going to be for gaming, watching movies and surfing the net
Big Dawg
Depends on how much money you got i guess. I think 512MB is plenty!
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