Hi:
The guy building my new machine recommends two 6GB sets of the F3-16000CL9T DDR3-2000 Tridents with the i7 930 on my Asus P6X58D motherboard. The machine will have an Nvidia GTX 260, a Cosage Arrow cooler starting off with two 140mm fans, three 1 TB Barracuda 7200.12 drives, an LG CD-DVD burner and an HX850W PSU in a Hef 932 case. I plan to add two SSDs or a small Raid array down the line, a BlueRay writer, and maybe a Sata-3 Raid controller. The setup will be used primarily for editing photographs with CS5 and Capture NX2, and website design with Dreamweaver, which is why I need the 12 gig of Ram. Later I will do a bit of video editing.
I plan to overclock to about 3.8GHz or maybe 4GHz, but stability is way more important than squeezing the last drop of processing capability from the setup.
After reading sites like Anandtech I had always believed that I should favour lower latencies instead of greater bandwidth, so I wonder if I wouldn't be better served going with DDR3-1600 chips running at lower latencies such as 7-7-7-7-20something and 1T. Secondly, if I do decide to run the DDR3-2000 chips at 1600 or, horrors, 1333, would these chips still need 1.65V or would I get away with feeding them less power?
I need the 12 gigs of memory and hope to be able to use 2 gig chips rather than pay the premium for the 4 gig modules. Am I being too ambitious with these timings across six chips? This is a working machine that will often run 24/7 and I cannot afford to keep it offline much once it is up and running.
On a more prosaic level, can someone reassure me that the chips will fit underneath the cooler?
Regards,
Jav
The guy building my new machine recommends two 6GB sets of the F3-16000CL9T DDR3-2000 Tridents with the i7 930 on my Asus P6X58D motherboard. The machine will have an Nvidia GTX 260, a Cosage Arrow cooler starting off with two 140mm fans, three 1 TB Barracuda 7200.12 drives, an LG CD-DVD burner and an HX850W PSU in a Hef 932 case. I plan to add two SSDs or a small Raid array down the line, a BlueRay writer, and maybe a Sata-3 Raid controller. The setup will be used primarily for editing photographs with CS5 and Capture NX2, and website design with Dreamweaver, which is why I need the 12 gig of Ram. Later I will do a bit of video editing.
I plan to overclock to about 3.8GHz or maybe 4GHz, but stability is way more important than squeezing the last drop of processing capability from the setup.
After reading sites like Anandtech I had always believed that I should favour lower latencies instead of greater bandwidth, so I wonder if I wouldn't be better served going with DDR3-1600 chips running at lower latencies such as 7-7-7-7-20something and 1T. Secondly, if I do decide to run the DDR3-2000 chips at 1600 or, horrors, 1333, would these chips still need 1.65V or would I get away with feeding them less power?
I need the 12 gigs of memory and hope to be able to use 2 gig chips rather than pay the premium for the 4 gig modules. Am I being too ambitious with these timings across six chips? This is a working machine that will often run 24/7 and I cannot afford to keep it offline much once it is up and running.
On a more prosaic level, can someone reassure me that the chips will fit underneath the cooler?
Regards,
Jav
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