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Psi57   07-26-2007 at 03:55:15 AM

This might be stupid, but...

Say I want to put this memory: Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6820145043
On this mobo: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6813188013

The motherboard specs say its "Memory Standard" is DDR800, but its FSB is 1333/1066 Mhz.

Will the motherboard bottleneck the memory or is the front side bus speed the thing that matters?

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GSTe   07-28-2007 at 12:57:10 PM
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The fsb dictates which cpus it can run, it should run 1066 ram though even though it only says it runs DDR800.... if not straight out of the box, then a bios update should sort it out. Ask in the motherboard section, or have a look at the evga website in the bios downloads bit, and see what updates it lists under each bios. Something like 'enhanced memory compatibility' is what you want.

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Psi57   08-08-2007 at 11:00:01 PM
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Apparently EVGA or Newegg reads these forums because after I posted this question they changed the description on the "Memory Standard" to say that it supports up to 1200 Mhz :)

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