Quad or Dual Core with Vista ?

[Feuerfalke]

Are ram and cpu clock speeds independent of each other, now that the FSB is gone?

 

Yesno;)

 

They were always independend in terms of clock-settings on decent boards, but they still are depending on each other in terms of memory control and computing data.

Edited November 5, 2009 by Feuerfalke

[Deigs]

Ram and CPU speeds are still important and relative to the Frame Per Second. The i7 just uses and outputs RAM more effectively by having a native triple channel controller, to my limited knowledge.

 

If you are going the Intel i7 920 CPU then there is no point in getting RAM faster the 1066 MHz as this is what it throttles the RAM speed to natively, unless you then overclock the RAM speeds in the BIOS. In which case you are then governed by the motherboard specs and it's ability to use the more expensive, higher MHz RAM.

 

So, if you want to get into overclocking, then yeah, invest in better RAM, but if your the sort of builder/gamer that installs his hardware and doesn't play with it to extensively then I'd sit at 1066 MHz.

 

A good article to read is Tom's Hardware review on this very topic.

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-scaling-i7,2325.html

 

Hope this helps. I'm still learning about this as I go as well. Good Luck.

Edited November 5, 2009 by Deigs

[sobek]

They were always independend in terms of clock-settings on decent boards, but they still are depending on each other in terms of memory control and computing data.

 

ASUS P5B deluxe FTW :-)

 

So, basically, nothing changed from the old FSB concept? If i want to overclock the cpu (without changing the multiplier) and make most of memory bandwith, i have to take ram that can handle an equal increase of the clock speed?

Edited November 5, 2009 by sobek

[Deigs]

ASUS P5B deluxe FTW :-)

 

So, basically, nothing changed from the old FSB concept? If i want to overclock the cpu (without changing the multiplier) and make most of memory bandwith, i have to take ram that can handle an equal increase of the clock speed?

 

Yes. The best stable overclocks of the i7 CPU has been with high spec RAM (unknown about changing the multiplier - yet to try first hand) they are dependant on each other if you are after these results. It has been known on the OCZ's forums that overclocked i7's (3.8+GHZ) are paired with high spec RAM configurations, usually overclocked 2000MHz +. Also your motherboard has to be able to deal with this strain as noted previously.

Edited November 5, 2009 by Deigs

[sobek]

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-scaling-i7,2325.html

 

 

Thanks for the link.