Please Help: Component Compatability

[Lirk13]

HIS Digital 5850 1GB ATI HD5850 GPU
Intel i5 750 Quad Core 2.66GHz Box CPU
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 32MB Cache S-ATA2 7200RPM
Vantec ioN2+C van-520C 520W PSU
OCZ Reaper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Asus P7P55D Intel P55 Chipset
LG GH22NS40 22x Sata Black + Beige bezel

Please help: are all these components compatible with each other?
Thanks in Advance

 

[TheBadMadMan]

Yes it will work!

 

[Rosaudio]

LOL you dont trust me do you Lirk?

 

[acidrain]

Don't see why it wouldn't be compatible so yeah, should be fine

 

[czc]

What about the ram voltage?

 

[acidrain]

What about the ram voltage?

Prob between 1.6 and 1.9 according to their website.

Looking on intel's site for the chip i notice this under product info

Product information

* 2.66 GHz and up to 3.20 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
* 4 processing threads
* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 2 channels of DDR3 1333 MHz memory

Does that mean it supports up to 1333 or a min of 1333 ram? If not the latter, then a possible bottleneck?

 

[czc]

Standard will be 1.9V according to a similar OCZ Reaper product on take2

Doesn't the i5 take 1.65v just like the i7?
Or can you change those setting?

 

[acidrain]

There are OCZ Reaper modules running with a 1.65v but after looking on their site, i noticed they have a wide variety of 1600 reaper's all with voltages ranging from 1.65 to 1.9 hence my edited post

 

[Lirk13]

SO....time for the simple answer.....is it compatible? drum roll..........

 

[acidrain]

SO....time for the simple answer.....is it compatible? drum roll..........

You will have to overclock your cpu in order to fully use the ddr3 1600 ram... so its up to you... if you want to OC then yes it's compatible, if not i'd rather get ddr3 1066 or 1333

 

[Lirk13]

You will have to overclock your cpu in order to fully use the ddr3 1600 ram... so its up to you... if you want to OC then yes it's compatible, if not i'd rather get ddr3 1066 or 1333

So basically my RAM is too advanced for my CPU?

 

[acidrain]

So basically my RAM is too advanced for my CPU?

Pretty much, fast RAM imo was only intended for those who overclock.

From intel:

Core i5 Product information

* 2.66 GHz and up to 3.20 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
* 4 processing threads
* 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
* 2 channels of DDR3 1333 MHz memory

 

[chickenbeef]

Yeah, get the lower frequency RAM if you're not going to OC. Just make sure that the modules you get are 1.65v or less as mentioned above.

 

[czc]

You will have to overclock your cpu in order to fully use the ddr3 1600 ram... so its up to you... if you want to OC then yes it's compatible, if not i'd rather get ddr3 1066 or 1333

So you can't overclock with 1333 RAM?