Memory DDR3

[ACallander]

Is corsair or my patriot good enough for my Intel sandy bridge i5 2500k?

I have patriot DDR3 1066 and I'm thinking of getting the corsair vengeance but is there a real difference?

 

[skizzled]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1608911
Read the articles in that thread.

Personally, I would go for something a little faster than 1066 and with voltage in the area of 1.5v. Although, the memory you have now should be alright if you aren't doing memory intensive tasks.

 

[neural0]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1608911
Read the articles in that thread.

Personally, I would go for something a little faster than 1066 and with voltage in the area of 1.5v. Although, the memory you have now should be alright if you aren't doing memory intensive tasks.

Great article on xbit, especially if you use the system for gaming. I thought their recommendations were well supported.

What speed would you recommend above 1066?

 

[drescherjm]

Today I would get either 1333 Mhz or 1600 MHz DDR3 ram anything higher is probably not worth the extra cost.

 

[neural0]

Ok. The last time I overclocked was with a Q6600 and I was limited by the memory at 400mhz. I want to avoid having that be the bottleneck in my 2600k system.

 

[drescherjm]

BTW, these are really not MHz since these are double clocked so in the bios you may see 666 Mhz or 800 MHz for these but that is actually the same.

Here are a few recommendations for DDR3 1600 sets:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277&cm_re=ddr3-_-20-231-277-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233144

Make sure you get 1.5V ram also.

 

[rpchip]

The 2500k and 2600k cpu's can be overclocked only by raising the multipliers so you don't need more than 1333 ram.

 

[Supercharged_Z06]

Consensus seems to be that 1600mhz DDR3 CL9 1.5V is the "sweet spot" when it comes to SB and the overall value/performance factor.

 

[neural0]

The 2500k and 2600k cpu's can be overclocked only by raising the multipliers so you don't need more than 1333 ram.

totally forgot that point... Is there any reason to raise the bus then?

 

[skizzled]

No, there's really no reason to raise the BCLK unless you are going for the extreme overclocks.

Everything in the system uses that bus and it can cause issues if you mess with it too much.

 

[E4g1e]

Actually, don't touck that BCLK of any Sandy Bridge system! These systems do not run stably at all if that BCLK is raised above 105MHz or so (stock BCLK is 100MHz). And all of the buses are completely tied to the BCLK speed, which results in the PCI-e bus running way out of spec if that BCLK is raised much.