Isn't DDR3-1333 a supported DRAM speed for AM3/AM3+?

[VirtualLarry]

Just curious. It was my understanding that DDR3-1333 was a standard, support, DRAM speed, for AM3 platforms, and by extension, AM3+.

Yet I sold a motherboard to someone, and they were making a fuss over the fact that the board's documentation, listed the 1333 RAM speed as "OC".

Shouldn't that be a standard, supported, speed?


Edit: This seems to suggest that 1333 is a standard, supported speed.
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=2515.0;wap2

 

[Smoblikat]

Just curious. It was my understanding that DDR3-1333 was a standard, support, DRAM speed, for AM3 platforms, and by extension, AM3+.

Yet I sold a motherboard to someone, and they were making a fuss over the fact that the board's documentation, listed the 1333 RAM speed as "OC".

Shouldn't that be a standard, supported, speed?

I never got the whole standard supported speed. But its all in the IMC i guess, my SB is native 1333 but it supports 2133, so standard and supported cant be used interchangably. It will work, AMD is good for like 2000 for mid range AM3 and 2200 for AM3+.

 

[chucky2]

To me, OC means that the board will need to be manually OC'd to run the memory at that OC'd speed with whatever CPU is being used, if the Auto setting would yield whatever the CPU would be running the memory at. Example:

My Phenom II X2 550, motherboard, and DDR3-1333 RAM want to run the RAM at 1333 speeds when in Auto - which they should, since it's 1333 RAM. If however I want to run the RAM at 1600, which the board will do, then I'll have to go into manual mode and OC the RAM to 1600.

As long as the board supports RAM speeds up to the speed you want your RAM to run at, via Auto, then to me what denotes OC is what speeds your CPU supports and what your RAM can handle.

Chuck

 

[nenforcer]

DDR3 speeds started at 1066 I believe, so if the board was particularly ancient it might have considered 1333 an OC.