Overclocking and memory...

[Johnny21a]

Hi guys, I am about to build a new system with a Core 2 6750, a Gigabyte P35-DQ6 mobo and I had some questions regarding the memory

I'm thinking about buying OCZ Reaper 1150 kit, I plan to overclock and also run on water cooling

Now for my questions, does higher memory frequency mean better overclocking potential ? My athlon 64 depended on how much the memory would overclock. So running an FSB of 500 means the memory would have to be stable at 1000Mhz or I can change that with dividers ?

If I don't need the fastest memory for the fastest possible overclock than I am going to get some cheaper memory than the one mentioned above and spend the money on something else

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys...

 

[Groveling_Wyrm]

Yes, faster memory would typically mean higher clocks, as well as higher overclocking potential.

You can change your memory speeds by changing the FSB/Memory ratio.

I don't know that you would need the 1150 memory to get that overclock. Any decent DDR2 1066 memory would do you just as good, and would be significantly cheaper priced.