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Then why did you purchase the 120 Extreme?


You don’t need a huge replacement heatsink if you are not going to overclock, or, overclock very high.

If you do wish to overclock, and I cant see why one would not on i7, 1333 memory will be fine up to a certain OC point assuming the motherboard has the ability in the BIOS to down clock the memory multiplier so the memory speed does not exceed the ability of the memory sticks when the processor Bclock value is increased.


My suggestion for 1600 memory product is for those who wish to get the most out of their i7 and clock it to 4GHz whereby the memory will want to run close to 1600

Also, 2x2GB... is that 1.65v DDR3 memory?  If not it wont work in i7, and, if you are not going to use 3 sticks of memory for i7 you are cutting off part of the perf i7 Quickpath offers. Quickpath requires 3 sticks of DDR3 1.65v memory for function at full speed.


Memory timing is also important. No matter if you purchase 1333 or 1600 you want the lowest timing memory you can buy in the GB amount. For 1600 @ 3x2GB that would be Mushkins CAS 7-8-7 timing product. For 1333 @ 3x2GB it would be Mushkins 6-6-6 timing product

1600
http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/memory_detail.asp?id=730

1333
http://www.mushkin.com/doc/products/memory_detail.asp?id=727


another good selection @ 1333 but not as fast on timing:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227366



Coming from AMD you can expect a heck of a boost in perf in compare however if you are going to make this move do not cut corners on memroy with 2 sticks and purchase a correct tri-channel memory kit


Clocking i7 is not that hard and they will clock to about 3.4GHz without a special heatsink however if you really want to get the most out of that 120 extreme and the 940, going for 3.8-4GHz would be a whopper of a upgrade for you on the right memory so now you have something new to think about



as for the motherboard, I don’t like gigabyte boards... never have. I would probably have gone for the Asus P6T (with or without the Palm OC)

NickN wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 7:59am:

How does this ram look to you Nick
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145224

freedomhays wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 11:17am:



They are ok and will do the job.. a bit pricy when the OCZ sticks of the same timing and speed are cheaper and come with a rebate

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227365

NickN wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 12:10pm:

Check this memory out ,  it has 7-7-7-20 at 1.5 volts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227375&Tpk=OCZ3X1333LV6...

NickN wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 8:41pm:


When you say predefined memory design..do you mean Ram that has an XMP profile?

Nick and all:  On one of the other threads I mentioned that I had upgraded to an i7940 on a P6T motherboard.

However I had only 2x2gig of DDR3 RAM installed and Nick's strong view is that this "cuts the nuts of the system". 

So on Tuesday I am having a third matching stick installed, along with a XiFi GTX280 (and maybe a new PSU).

So at the moment I only have two sticks of RAM and a good 8800GTX, and I am getting a brand new "crash".  Randomly the screen will go black but the game will continue to run.  It takes task manager to clear it, and the message code is 'nvlddmkm', driver crashed but restored.

According to Nvidia the usual reason is not software but hardware.  If anyone is familar with this one, can I reasonably put it down to the RAM problem and possibly power supply?

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Well shoot, wrote the check but I must have misplaced your mailing address