Hello everyone,

I want to get back to basics my understanding of over/clocking was to get the best performance for the cheapest price, but when i started to look around this didnt seem to be the case. All expensive Mobos, CPUs and ram. Now I do not have the money to spend on the best of the best so i've decided on this set up:

Gigabyte DS3 + E4300 + DDR2 667 Ram (2GB)

My question is what sort of resulting overclock can i hope to get using DDR2 667 Ram.

Thanks for the help!

Vic.

Core2 E4300 FSB = 200 Mhz x 4 QuadPumped = 800 Mhz
DDR2 667 Mhz = 333 Mhz x 2

Therefore setting 1:1 FSB/DRAM ratio you could put the E4300 with a 333 Mhz x 4 = 1333 Mhz bus

That will leave the processor in 333 Mhz x 9 (Default multiplier for E4300) = 3.0 Ghz

That is if everytinhg else works flawlessly cooling/mobo/psu and voltage selection in the motherboard bios.

All of this is in theory go step by step. check the manuals here in how to overclock.

i'll get some OCZ Platinum Rev2 DDR2 - 800 it's not much more and it'll make it more upgradable.

Thanks for the reply!