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    Quote Originally Posted by Trushot View Post
    are you saying basically if you do not plan to Overclock there is no need to buy more than 1066 ram for a 6 core i7 chip ?


    Let me double check this with some colleagues. Its gets really complicated as the Front Side Buss is no more. Processors are moving to a new architecture.
    Any of the I7s can be over clocked if you know how to. The 6 core just makes it nice and easy to do. Intel knows that if you are dropping that much on a CPU, chances are you have some crazy thermal solution, and will OC it.

    So I just talked this over with a coworker. The 6 core uses a QPI, the rest still use FSB. They will likely all default to 1066, but changing them to 1600 is easy and does NOT require you to OC anything else or have an aftermarket thermal solution.
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