Whats the best ram my motherboard can take?

2008-03-08 04:38:39

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ELITE-UK: Scratching my back; +170|6752|SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

MSI P6N SLI Platinum nForce 650i SLI Socket 775 eSATA 8 channel audio ATX motherboard

It says on the mobo box that it can take upto ddr 1066mhz dual channel ram

But in the manual it says only ddr 800.

Im confused as to what it can fully take. :S

Can anyone help me out here?

2008-03-08 04:41:41

#2

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6845|NYC / Hamburg

unless I'm wrong it goes like
800MHz FSB = 667MHZ RAM
1066MHz FSB = 800MHZ RAM
1333MHz FSB = 1066MHZ RAM
max

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2008-03-08 04:44:45

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ELITE-UK: Scratching my back; +170|6752|SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

So you think it could take this ram:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu … subcat=817

2008-03-08 04:47:56

#4

DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6741|cuntshitlake

Seems that it can take max 8gb of DDR2-800MHz (PC-6400) RAM.

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_sp … p;class=mb

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2008-03-08 04:48:11

#5

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6845|NYC / Hamburg

ELITE-UK wrote:
So you think it could take this ram:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu … subcat=817

should be all right. Running ram that's too fast is never a problem. What CPU do you have and what FSB are you running it at?

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2008-03-08 04:55:54

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ELITE-UK: Scratching my back; +170|6752|SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

Its the Q6600 and i think its running at 1066fsb.

2008-03-08 04:57:18

#7

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6845|NYC / Hamburg

ELITE-UK wrote:
Its the Q6600 and i think its running at 1066fsb.

you'll need to push it to 1333MHz fsb to run your ram at 1066MHz. Shouldn't be a problem though. q6600's make 3.0 GHz easily

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2008-03-08 04:58:54

#8

ELITE-UK: Scratching my back; +170|6752|SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

max wrote:
ELITE-UK wrote:
Its the Q6600 and i think its running at 1066fsb.
you'll need to push it to 1333MHz fsb to run your ram at 1066MHz. Shouldn't be a problem though. q6600's make 3.0 GHz easily

Ive never really done any overclocking before though lol

2008-03-08 05:01:12

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max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6845|NYC / Hamburg

stick to cheaper 800MHz ram then. The performance difference is minimal and it will only limit you on those extreme overclocks

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2008-03-08 08:50:38

#10

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6475|Winland

max wrote:
unless I'm wrong it goes like
800MHz FSB = 667MHZ RAM
1066MHz FSB = 800MHZ RAM
1333MHz FSB = 1066MHZ RAM
max

When FSB800 was introduced, the fastest RAM available was DDR400... And from my own experience, I've ran the following configurations successfully:

FSB800 with DDR 266, 333, 400, DDR2-400, 533, 667, 800 and 1066 (Ratio change on some strange ASRock board let me run DDR2-800 at 1066MHz with an FSB of 800)
FSB1066 with DDR2-400, 800, 1066
FSB333/400 with all forms of DDR and DDR2-400, 533, 667 and 800.
FSB200 with all forms of DDR.

Basically, any DDR2 RAM should work with any CPU in a DDR2 mobo.

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