SLi and DDR2 800 only?

[Ghost9]

I noticed that all of the SLi boards that I've been looking at while shopping around are limiting their memory to DDR2 800. Is this just the current limitations of running SLi, or is it just where I've been shopping? I've been looking on newegg.

 

[rammedstein]

its because no ram can do any faster than ddr2800 whilst staying within the jedec (?) standards, so, by default the boards don't support anything higher (i know how hard it is getting memory to run at ddr 800 @ 1.8v, imagine 1066 @1.8v!!). However, if you do get a board that does ddr2-800 that means it has a 2x memory multi, so you can run your ram at the same speed as the fsb if need be (aka, E4xxx, fsb 800, ram ddr 800, E6xxx, fsb 1066, ddr 1066)

 

[Ghost9]

this is what i was looking at:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131142

and i was planning on getting a Q6600 with it.