Thread: Phenom II X6 processor and DDR3 memory review

AMD users may search themselves somewhat upset with the current introduction from the makers of overclocker friendly memory figures and they have a reason to feel that way. There are DDR3 DIMMs now there with a given frequency of over 2500 MHz but such high clock price cannot be used on the Socket AM3 platform.

As we found out in a current article it is quite difficult even to begin a modern Phenom II X6 up together with DDR3-2000. Thus the more of high speed DDR3 modules offered today are only less to LGA1156 and LGA1366 platforms and cannot give their good with AMD processors.

AMD claims that a good combo of a processor mainboard and memory is needed to prepare DDR3-2000 work on the Socket AM3 platform but in our experiments we couldn’t search that combination even though we used a mainboard worth of supporting DDR3-2000 and a flagship CPU model. None of the overclocker friendly memory modules listed for 2000 or even 2133 MHz would operate as DDR3-2000 on our Socket AM3 testbed then. The great memory frequency the system stayed constant at was about 1900 MHz.



We thought our CPU was just not a nice sample but currently we have found out by asking with memory makers that the key factor is the memory modules other than the CPU you use. Most of high-speed DDR3 SDRAM device are generally not meant for Socket AM3. Other than that you require special memory considered for this particular platform.

Now we’ve got a fresh opportunity to examine Phenom II X6 processors with DDR3-2000 memory as G.Skill were good to offer us their Phenom-optimized DDR3-2000 device marked as F3-16000CL7D-4GBFLS. Thanks to it we've make sure that any Phenom II X6 processors are indeed illegible of working with high-speed system memory. You only need an proper mainboard out of the various models related on the Leo range chipsets . The chipset alone doesn’t assure such compatibility, though. Right now, there is the following list of Socket AM3 mainboards helping DDR3-2000.