On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:16:31 -0600, Scotter wrote:
> Wow! GREAT information! One last thing, please?
>
> The other poster/answerer, Peter B (thank YOU, too!) mentioned DDR2-667
> being the fastest I need and both of you I think mentioned memory
timings.
>
> I can think of two reasons to go ahead and get DDR2-800 instead of
DDR2-667
> and I want to run them by you.
>
> If I overclock my QX6700 to 3ghz or whatever, will that mean any
> overclocking of the RAM if I get either of those above-mentioned RAM
types?
> If the answer to that is "yes" then my assumption would be I'm safer
with
> the DDR2-800 because it's stock speeds are already higher than the 667.
>
> The other reason I'm leaing toward DDR2-800 is for future expandability
like
> if later I swap out the QX6700 for some other, faster thing then chances
are
> my RAM will be more up to the task and less likely to have to switch it,
> too. Is this logical?
>
> Finally, timings. I don't need/want a big class on timings. But I do
want to
> know about stock timings on RAM. Basically, which is better if I intend
to
> overclock a bit.
>
> At NewEgg I'm seeing stuff for DDR2-800 like:
>
> 6-6-6-18
>
> 5-5-5-15
>
> 4-4-4-12
>
> Which is best?
>
>
>
Lower latency is better but won't make a huge difference, if the price is
reasonably similar I'd go with the 4-4-4 or 5-5-5, it's worth a small
premium but not a large one. You won't be able to swap out the bridge chip
so that's going to be the limit on how fast you can run the FSB even if
you do a future CPU upgrade. DDR800 will give you more timing margin to
play with. It won't give you anymore performance but it might make for a
more reliable system because you can significantly underclock it.
BTW if you are planning on overclocking a QX6700 then you should probably
consider a monster cooler like a Thermaltake Big Typhoon. The stock Intel
cooler for the E6700 is more than adequate but the QX6700 consumes 2X the
power of an E6700. I don't know if they include a different cooler with
the QX6700, if it's the same one as the E6700 then you'll definitely want
to get a better one. Also do you really need 4 cores? Unless you are doing
parallel processing two cores should be enough.
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