zer0hour pretty much nailed it with his explanation.


There are many leagues of 'performance RAM' too, and while my OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 800 might look good, and have low latencies out of the box, I have been unsuccessful running it at 1000MHz or more, stable.

Better to get something with D9GMH chipset.

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Added on September 9, 2008, 11:00 pmThe reason why they come packaged like that is because for whatever amount of RAM you need (1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, etc.), it is best to divide the amount and run them in two, to get the best performance out of your 'dual channel' setup.

If you just by one DIMM, you won't get the advantage of the setup, and if you buy four, you're still only getting dual channel, only now your system has to work with two separate threads of data for each channel to get the information held in the RAM.

It has nothing to do with 'being better for OC'ing.'



This post has been edited by CHiNO730: Sep 9 2008, 11:00 PM

Can you elaborate on this?

I'm not sure I understand.

You can find low latency memory and use it on Intel boards with better results compared to higher latency chips - thus low latency also improves performance on Intel chipsets.

The memory speed is also important because it determines how fast the cycle can be completed and the information delivered.