i7 3770 Memory OC

drkknghtavngr · February 10, 2019

I currently have 1333 ddr3 sticks lying around and about to buy an old i7 3770 system. The mothboard is an Asus H61m-e which supports ram oc upto 2200mhz.
Does this actually work? Even tho Intel on their website said i7 3770 only supports ddr3 1333/1600...

Theres a great deal on my local shop and thinking of getting it

Crunchy Dragon · February 10, 2019

You can overclock the memory.

I'd shoot for 1866 or 2133 Mhz, depending on what limitations you run into.

drkknghtavngr · February 10, 2019

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You can overclock the memory.

I'd shoot for 1866 or 2133 Mhz, depending on what limitations you run into.

Is there alot of gains frim 1866 to 2133?

Crunchy Dragon · February 10, 2019

1 minute ago, drkknghtavngr said:

Is there alot of gains frim 1866 to 2133?

I wouldn't count them as noticeable gains, so they probably don't mean too much anyway for the average user.

It's kind of like Ryzen(since Ryzen loves fast memory) with DDR4-2133 vs DDR4-3200, pretty much only the high end power users will notice a real difference between the two speeds.

I was listing those two since I wouldn't count too much on your board(or memory) being capable of going beyond 2133, and 1866 is a pretty good speed for DDR3.