nzxt lexa blackline case!! very happy.

[ricanflow]

When you overclock the CPU, you are overclocking the RAM as well.

Unless you unlink the ram, but im not sure if all boards can do that. I know many asus do.

 

[thirdshiftdj]

I know mine doesn't. Wish it did though

 

[NosBoost300]

i've found unlinking ram makes things a bit harder... well when trying to achieve certain speeds i guess... sometimes it just don't make for a good mix...and things seem fine... and BOOM... blue screen of death!

 

[Luke]

oh so if i oced my cpu it would oc the ram as well, can you decide how high it goes or does it depend on how far u oc the cpu.

 

[NosBoost300]

w/ a 780i you could unlink and oc each individually

 

[Vaanish]

Unlinking isnt really an ideal solution.

If youre reaching crazy CPU frequencies (4GHz +) and your ram unlinked and running at like 800MHz then theres no way that the RAM can feed sufficient data to the CPU. But thats just in extreme situations.

 

[NosBoost300]

i ran 4.0ghz 3dmark run w/ 800mhz just fine

 

[Luke]

well i won't be ocing that far, i might go for around 3.7ghz. im not greedy i just want some free speed.

 

[NosBoost300]

to stay at 3.7 on air will be incredibly hard.. once you hit about 3.6 and up, you needa start pumping the voltage up

 

[Poizen22]

no im gona be testing the stuff as it comes (well the stuff i can test) i will be getting the mobo, cpu, and ram in one shipment so that won't be a problem. the only thing that could be bad and i not realize it is the psu, but i'll take my chances.

i did teh same as you and i dotn regret it, that way i could wait and find good prices on everything not just buy it all at once when prices may not be so good, i got my crucial ram for 65$ before mail in rebate, and my psu for 109.99 all wicked prices i got my q6600 for 250 and same thing with my mobo. i purchased everyuthign with in a motnh of each other anyway, it was all great. now im buyign a new gpu finaly.

edit: and ya for ocing you will need to start pumping voltage depending on your vid, at 4.0ghz i can boot and run 3dmark06 with 1.55 volts which is to high for my tatses alltho the 3d mark 06 usualy crashes half way thru i got it to run once tho, and temps are bad. at 3.8ghz i ca nrun 1.42v and be fine with an idle temp of 42 degrees not lapped. alltho my vid is 1.2. i think to get my 4.0 suicide runs to work a litle better i gotta bring my ram up to maybe 1000mghz and raise my timmings to like 5-5-5-15, or i can try running 850 with 4-4-4-12 timing, if i still get unstable il go with 5-5-5-15 timings which will probably be unessacery. ive allready burnt one stick of crucial btw lol.