A new overclocking "project"...I guess.

[RyanGreener]

Hello everyone. I ended up buying an awesome SFF Shuttle PC for my little brother for a good deal, but I ended up keeping it and giving him my old rig because I liked it so much. (Quieter, Faster in SC2, and smaller so it fits in my cluttered room better). Unfortunately, I'm not too familar with overclocking an Intel processor. This is the hardware that matters so far:

Intel E8600 3.33 GHZ
Shuttle X48 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600

Currently at the following:
CPU VCore: 1.25V
CPU Speed: 400 FSB x 10 (4.0 GHz)
Memory Speed: 800 MHz x 2 (Assuming that DDR3 is still double pumped, and is no different from DDR2, then I'm running below the RAM Speed of 1600 MHz still)
Auto for all of the other settings.

Am I correct to assume that DDR3 is double pumped and that I'm not going over the RAM rating of 1600 MHz? The C2D OCing guide here says that you're supposed to multiply DDR3 by 4, and not 2.....but it makes no sense to me since DDR3 still stands for "double data rate".

 

[RyanGreener]

Read first post.

 

[mtnd3vil]

azemsiB is correct.
Assuming your 1:1 memory speed statement, you're actually running your ram at DDR3-800 speeds with a 400Mhz host clock.
This being said, you can achieve up to 8GHz CPU speed without OCing the ram.

Did I mention I like s775 DDR3 systems?

 

[VirtualLarry]

azemsiB is correct.
Assuming your 1:1 memory speed statement, you're actually running your ram at DDR3-800 speeds with a 400Mhz host clock.
This being said, you can achieve up to 8GHz CPU speed without OCing the ram.

Did I mention I like s775 DDR3 systems?

I think that the lowest DRAM multi with 775 DDR3 systems is 2:1, actually. I don't think that you can run 1:1 with DDR3. (I'd love to be proven wrong though.)

 

[RyanGreener]

azemsiB is correct.
Assuming your 1:1 memory speed statement, you're actually running your ram at DDR3-800 speeds with a 400Mhz host clock.
This being said, you can achieve up to 8GHz CPU speed without OCing the ram.

Did I mention I like s775 DDR3 systems?

Wow that's crazy, haha. Time to see how high this thing can go

4.0 ghz on 1.25V is awesome. I've still got a lot of voltage left to go.

 

[RyanGreener]

I think that the lowest DRAM multi with 775 DDR3 systems is 2:1, actually. I don't think that you can run 1:1 with DDR3. (I'd love to be proven wrong though.)

Sorry, I didn't answer this, but according to my BIOS, I am running with a 1:1 ratio on DDR3.