Limiting overclock with Memory selection?

[HyperTension]

Pending ordering a EVGA 680i motherboard from newegg.com along with memory. I have a 6600 that had prev. done 3.5 with decent air cooling, as I would like to do.

I would like to place a 4GB stick, seeing how the "sweetspot" for Vista appears to be approx. 3GB.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?Item=N82E16820231122 Would this limit my overclock? I know that if I go with the PC5300 would begin to limit it at around 2.7, 2.8.

How much of a limiting factor will this have, and does anybody have any overclock experience with this?

Suggestions are more than welcome!

Thanks, Chris

 

[BillParrish]

well, they are pc6400 (800MHz)

with your 6600 running a 9x mulitplier and 1:1 memory divider ....

at 400FSB the cpu will be running 9 x 400 = 3.6GHz (if it will make it)

you memory will be running at 2 x 400 = 800MHz which is exactly what it is specificed to run at with no overclocking at all.

so you should not be limited by that memory at all if it will do its advertised speed and you set the memory divider correctly and the board will do 400FSB.

should be a nice rig.


be sure to order the T1 or A1 version of that board and immedately register it on Evga website. There are at least 3 very recent posts that explain why.

 

[HyperTension]

So i have seen. At some point, I'll drop in quad core so that would be rather important.

How can I make sure that I get that revision? I would like to think that with Newegg I would, given their output volume.

Any way to confirm this?

 

[BillParrish]

not that I know of, lots of trouble with newegg sending out older versions of the Gigabyte boards, seemed to take a long time to flush out stock. I did see some posts where clubit ?? would specify a board version but I dont vist that site. (nothing wrong with them, just not in my normal "rounds". )