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garus
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| Posted: Thu, 12th Apr 2012 23:33 Post subject: |
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Z77 boards and ivy bridge are out later this month
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Apr 2012 18:54 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice I am going to wait for ivy to come out before I buy anything just to see whats what with prices and performance. The Z77 boards are nice and I think I am going to get one of those.
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Slizza
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 16:14 Post subject: |
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And new RAM with much higher clocks (albeit at slightly slacker timing) will be flooding the market.
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 17:04 Post subject: |
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| Slizza wrote: | | And new RAM with much higher clocks (albeit at slightly slacker timing) will be flooding the market. |
Have they changed something in the memory controller that makes high speed RAM worth it? With 2500K/2600K there's no particularly noticeable performance difference between 1866 and 2133. In fact, the last step that shows any kind of minor difference is between 1600 and 1866. Timings doesn't seem to do much either. The once so easy performance boost from changing the wait from 2N to 1N doesn't do anything these days.
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Slizza
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 17:44 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | | Slizza wrote: | | And new RAM with much higher clocks (albeit at slightly slacker timing) will be flooding the market. |
Have they changed something in the memory controller that makes high speed RAM worth it? With 2500K/2600K there's no particularly noticeable performance difference between 1866 and 2133. In fact, the last step that shows any kind of minor difference is between 1600 and 1866. Timings doesn't seem to do much either. The once so easy performance boost from changing the wait from 2N to 1N doesn't do anything these days. |
Main advatage is for overclocking.
The Ivy Bridge CPU's should allow you to have much higher ram clocks.
For most every day use like gaming etc there is not much performance to be gained.
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 17:55 Post subject: |
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| velum wrote: | | Thanks for the advice I am going to wait for ivy to come out before I buy anything just to see whats what with prices and performance. The Z77 boards are nice and I think I am going to get one of those. |
you won't be getting ivy bridge's equivalents of 2600K and asus Z68 deluxe for 600$ that's for sure, especially on release day. also recent rumors that ivy bridge is bad overclocker. still, playing it safe and waiting is smart move.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 17:58 Post subject: |
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| Slizza wrote: | Main advatage is for overclocking.
The Ivy Bridge CPU's should allow you to have much higher ram clocks. |
How do you figure that? The CPU overclock is no longer tied to memory speed as you don't overclock the BCLK/FSB, so how does faster memory help?
All it does is give you higher memory bandwidth, but even then beyond DDR3-1600 there's barely any difference.
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Slizza
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 18:29 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | | Slizza wrote: | Main advatage is for overclocking.
The Ivy Bridge CPU's should allow you to have much higher ram clocks. |
How do you figure that? The CPU overclock is no longer tied to memory speed as you don't overclock the BCLK/FSB, so how does faster memory help?
All it does is give you higher memory bandwidth, but even then beyond DDR3-1600 there's barely any difference. |
Was talkign about overclocking the ram.
The point is more that you will get the better rated kits at the same price...
Pointless buying a 1600 kit,
I hear the newer sticks will also be much lower profile.
Great news for air coolers.
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Apr 2012 23:31 Post subject: |
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I bought a set of G.Skill ARES Low Profile (2x4GB) and they are indeed low profile. The days of buying cherry picked expensive RAM for overclocking purposes are over.
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| Posted: Mon, 16th Apr 2012 04:48 Post subject: |
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| garus wrote: | | Self contained watercooling for cpu: Corsair H80. |
+1
i love mine, yet to see any side by side comparisons with beer bong type water coolers or even high performance air cooler but they definitely work very very well, adding an H80 and re-applying thermal paste lost me about 20c from what i remember.
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