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Old 07-30-2009, 03:34 AM
Lee Yuan Sheng
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The only reason to have highly clocked RAM is for overclocking the CPU. For instance on i7 machines to reach something like 4ghz you'll probably need it, as at say, a base clock of 200MHz with a 20x multiplier you'll need 1600MHz RAM if the RAM is clocked at 8x base clock speed.
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