Overclocking and ram

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cypherotu

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Is there a spesific type of ram that you need if you plan on overclocing your processor?
I have heard that DDR (500) is better than DDR (400) but the timings on the 400 are better.
What does overclocking get you from ram anyways? if the responce time (latiency) is the same how does it help?
 
You can overclock your cpu without overclocking your ram but you have to use a divider. Depending on what ram you have will determine if you will have to use a divider or not.
Overclocking your ram just like overclocking anything else makes it faster.

What ram do you have?
 
Ok basically your CPU speed = FSB x CPU multiplier.
Your RAM runs at the speed of your FSB. So DDR 400 which runs at 200 mhz is what most people by because that is the speed of the current AMD CPU's FSB. Now an Opteron 165 for instance has a multiplier of 9 so 200mhz (fsb speed) x 9 (cpu multiplier) = 1800 mhz (cpu speed). Since multipliers are usually locked on most processors people must overclock by raising the FSB.

So if you went and bought DDR 500 which runs at 250 mhz you could raise your FSB speed to 250 mhz while having your memory run at the same speed, so this is what you could do. 250mhz (fsb speed) x 9( multiplier) = 2250 mhz.

You will also be able to raise your RAM speed but there will be a certain point where it becomes unstable. the DDR 500 RAM would be able to reach a higher speed which would enable you to get a better OC without using a memory divider. Memory dividers run your RAM at a fraction of the speed of your FSB which makes it slower.

So basically people buy faster RAM to OC.
 
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