Ram speed to max or clock speed to max? Q6600

[Tonka777]

Can you not just use the memory multi to make the ram slower on some boards, so you cant set a different multi and make the ram run faster than the fsb, only slower? Not sure if there is any truth in it, it just sprang to mind from somewhere when i was reading the posts above!

If you can get your Q6600 at 3.2Ghz stable with the RAM and FSB at 400Mhz i think you'll be happy Zak. That is where mine is at for now, and its not a slow system!

I have some superpi results that i compiled when i originally started pushing the FSB up that might come in useful;

Stock - 2.40GHz
SuperPi - 21.312 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 2.65GHz
SuperPi - 20.748 seconds to 1M
Clocked  - 2.75GHz
SuperPi - 19.391 seconds to 1M
Clocked  - 2.92GHz
SuperPi - 18.209 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 2.84GHz - 355FSB	
SuperPi - 18.580 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 2.92GHz - 365FSB	
SuperPi - 18.254 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 3.00GHz - 375FSB
SuperPi - 17.659 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 3.12GHz - 390FSB
SuperPi - 16.958 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 3.17GHz - 395FSB
SuperPi - 16.551 seconds to 1M
Clocked - 3.1720GHz - 400FSB
SuperPi - 16.302 seconds to 1M

Also, i just ran a quick benchmark in Everest, and my RAM bandwidth is 6954MB/s Read and 7281MB/s Write, that's Corsair PC6400 at 4-4-4-12.

[Zak33]

Can you not just use the memory multi to make the ram slower on some boards, so you cant set a different multi and make the ram run faster than the fsb, only slower? Not sure if there is any truth in it, it just sprang to mind from somewhere when i was reading the posts above!

If you can get your Q6600 at 3.2Ghz stable with the RAM and FSB at 400Mhz i think you'll be happy Zak. That is where mine is at for now, and its not a slow system!

that's exacrtly where I've landed with it tbh. Prolly not coincidence... just maths.

8x multiplier (which Windows sees as a 9x, but CPU-Z reports correctly)
2.0x memory mulitplier, and FSB set at 400, so ram at 800, Quad pumped chip architecture at 1600 and so far.... so blummin' fast

Shame it's not my PC... my motherboard won't adjust anything. Will look (once more) into getting a new mobo now though.. a SFF uATX mobo, with 4 ram slots and my QX6700 should go well I think. This Q6600 certainly does