Overclocking idea, think i went wrong somewhere

[gimpacause]

hi guys i'm new here and have a question that has been bugging me for a few days.

i am about to take delivery of a new system containing


E8500 CPU

eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 M/Board - nForce 790i Ultra SLI,

2 ! Corsair TW3X2G2000C9DFNV 2GB (2x XMS3 1GB) PC-16000 (2000MHz) EPP2.0 DDR3 RAM KITS

now my idea is to run the ram at 500mhz (2000 Quad pumped as per specs of the ram)

and i want to clock my cpu to 4.0ghz

if i set the ram to 500 it will equal a cpu speed of 4.75ghz which i think will be to much for my cpu on air cooling to handle (im using the noctua NH-U12P with an extra faan in a push-pull senario in heavily modified antec twelve-hundred and DA1200 silverstone PSU)

so i was thinking of dialing back the cpu multiplyer to 8 (from factory 9.5) would this work and more importantly (8x500=4000)

what ratio would this run at i was hoping for 1:1 but from what i have heard its ok to have the ram run higher than the rest of the system

what are your thoughts on this or what speed DDR3 RAM would give me those sort of result (i want to stick to corsair or patriot if i can)

or any other ideas to acheive this clock and do you think the noctua is up to the taskof cooling this cpu

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

First of all, Welcome to the Anandtech forums 🙂

you can run your ram at whatever you want. 1:1 is good and it's ideal in the DDR2 area, 1:2 is the ideal ratio for DDR3, ...ideal is the key word, but! you can run it at whatever you want it at.

 

[OCGuy]

You dont quad-pump RAM. That is the FSB only. You only double the ram speed.

 

[gimpacause]

ok i'm starting to understand now, but from those parts would a 4 ghz overclock be pretty straight forward any parts you guys would suggest i change in order to acheive it