Some help with processors please...

[bobkn]

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.

 

[bigseb]

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]

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

 

[bigseb]

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

lol