Similar to every performance PC I continuously push my system to obtain highest memory throughput I can. To get best performance in today's games and benchmarks you want large memory bandwidth. Two identically systems running with similar components and processor can do differently based on if one has increased their memory bus. The system with higher memory bus will win, and generally by a big margin.

Introduction

One of the biggest difficulties I have come across was not maxing out my processor speed; it was not being able to run my memory quicker. Usually there have been two reasons, first memory just would not run any faster; or second motherboard could not push memory higher. For resolving first problem, GeIL has free 256 megabyte and 512 megabyte sticks of PC3500 RAM. PC3500 RAM is rated to execute on a 216.666 MHz memory bus or 433 MHz DDR. That is over 100 MHz higher than any JEDEC specialized RAM.