Hello friends.
I was curious to know if on the Z87 platform, seeing as mainly the multiplier is used to overclock, does that mean that you can overclock the CPU without changing the RAM speeds at all?
I was just wondering because I wanted to know the benefits of higher speed ram as far as overclocking potential is concerned. I currently own an i7 930 and to overclock that all you could do was raise the BCLK, which mean the RAM speed would increase as well, and if you were using low speed RAM you would want to decrease the RAM multiplier in order to make sure that the system was stable.
Now I intended to run some 1600 MHz RAM if I wanted Z87, but was told to get some 1866 MHz for better overclocking potential - which I wasn't too sure about.
I was curious to know if on the Z87 platform, seeing as mainly the multiplier is used to overclock, does that mean that you can overclock the CPU without changing the RAM speeds at all?
I was just wondering because I wanted to know the benefits of higher speed ram as far as overclocking potential is concerned. I currently own an i7 930 and to overclock that all you could do was raise the BCLK, which mean the RAM speed would increase as well, and if you were using low speed RAM you would want to decrease the RAM multiplier in order to make sure that the system was stable.
Now I intended to run some 1600 MHz RAM if I wanted Z87, but was told to get some 1866 MHz for better overclocking potential - which I wasn't too sure about.
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