Overclocking - Page 2

TheMawn · 2013-09-15, 09:22

Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do you mean there may be diminishing returns on memory speed?

Mark Rose · 2013-09-16, 16:20

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Originally Posted by TheMawn

He is very far from being memory bandwidth bound as he has access to quad-channel RAM which is twice as fast as dual channel. It's as though he is running 4266 MHz memory which is enough to cover probably 8 GHz on four cores if such a thing were possible.

You're right; that is a quad-channel chip. Most i7's aren't.

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TheMawn May 2013 East. Always East. 11·157 Posts	Sorry, I don't quite understand. Do you mean there may be diminishing returns on memory speed?