Need memory advice for Ivy Bridge build

And there is not a 1:1 FSB to RAM ratio like a number of years that was preferred? Things got a lot simpler!!!

Remember, the returns from anything over 1600mhz decrease, fast.

Yeah, it's because FSB on SB and IB (the LGA1155 version, like I said because SB-E LGA2011 is different) is linked with PCIe/PCI and SATA and can't be unlinked, so overclocking the FSB overclocks everything, which is bad, lol. You CAN go up to 105-108 MHz on the FSB, but any more than that causes data corruption and instability. So yeah, it's pretty easy with SB/IB, just multi and voltage to think about, now.

And gary is right, there's less of a performance increase than you would think as you go up in RAM speeds.

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Thanks guys for advice!

IB supoprts both 1.5v and 1.35v ram, btw.

you can OC memory, seperately from the 100MHz signal. but there are few returns, get better timings for as much benefit.