Xeon x5650

[Oliver davies]

I have this CPU on a gigabyte X58 USB-3 motherboard and it is currently running at 3360Mhz with a 160Mhz base clock overclock. I was wondering weather if I bought faster ram say 2000 or 2400 MHz ram i could get the overclock any higher, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[Electronics Wizardy]

normally faster ram causes a lower cpu overclock.

[Oliver davies]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

normally faster ram causes a lower cpu overclock.

oh thats interesting... Any idea how else I could get it any higher?

 

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

If you are having trouble due to ram instability why aren't you running in the lowest ram multiplier?

[NoxiousOdor]

7 minutes ago, Oliver davies said:

oh thats interesting... Any idea how else I could get it any higher?

 

I'm not quite sure how but there are a lot of people on the below thread who can help with overclocking on the x58 platform

 

 

[Biggerboot]

Whether you had 2133 or 2400mhz ram I think your results would be close to the same.  It's mainly your base clock that multiplies your CPU/RAM.  You may be able to ge the base clock a little higher by slowing the ram down if the board/module allows it.  It would let you get your base clock higher, but you may be close to the ceiling as is.

As above post mentioned, they would probably have more exp.

[bimmerman]

If you've got good cooling, try 200 BCLK and 20 CPU multiplier. 160 is a mild OC.

 

Or, y'know, go to the X58 thread linked above.

 

RAM speed makes very little to zero measurable difference on this platform, unless you truly are memory bandwidth limited (likely not the case). Increasing RAM speed won't affect your CPU OC whatsoever.

[Oliver davies]

20 minutes ago, bimmerman said:

If you've got good cooling, try 200 BCLK and 20 CPU multiplier. 160 is a mild OC.

 

Or, y'know, go to the X58 thread linked above.

 

RAM speed makes very little to zero measurable difference on this platform, unless you truly are memory bandwidth limited (likely not the case). Increasing RAM speed won't affect your CPU OC whatsoever.

my cpu multipler is at 22 currently but ill give it a go

 

[Oliver davies]

1 hour ago, WhisperingKnickers said:

I'm not quite sure how but there are a lot of people on the below thread who can help with overclocking on the x58 platform

 

 

Thank you

 

 

[asand1]

Afaik 1333mhz is the highest speed officially supported ram, although mine is OC'd to 1600.