Some help with processors please...

bigseb said:

Dave76 said:

To back-off or loosen the RAM timings.

If the RAM stock timings are 8-8-8-22, to back-off or loosen you might go to 9-9-9-24.

This is just an example.

You will not notice the difference in performance, you might see it in a benchmark number.

Ok you lost me completely. I admit to not knowing very much about all this, pretty much learning as I go along.

You're not alone in this. For a brief description, see:

Memory timings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I don't pretend to understand this stuff, but a bit of empirical messing about gave me a stable system.

I will definitely be building it myself. I have attached a quote of what I intend to get. You will see that I have decided on the 870 (due to costs and the fact that the 1336 socket is being ended next year). I will most likely also add another 4Gb of RAM (for a total of 8Gb).



I think I have a pretty decent system in the above. I definitely DO NOT want to tinker around with timings, etc. Would like to hear more opinions.

Thanks for all your replies so far. You have all been very helpful.

DirtyElf said:

an i7-870 with 8 gigs of ram is a horrible machine (see system specs)

lol