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Any opinions? My Mobo can take up to 8 gigs of Ram, I'm thinking of going for 1066 Mhz instead of 800. Worth the extra cash or just stick to 800?


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probably not, but I bought 1066 recently.

how much of the stuff in your siganture line was "worth it"?

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No. DDR2 1066 is just factory OCed DDR2 800. Some motherboards (mainly P35-DS3/DS4) boards seems to have problems with RAM natively higher than DDR2 800.


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true enough. As for my sig I don't regret buying anything, but it was really high price (cough 9800 GX2 cough). The Ram was 50$ each for the 2 sets. I'm just thinking of whether getting 8 gigs of Ram or just 4 gigs 1066. But seeing as it has problems and its just oced Maybe its not worth it.


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CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.6, RAM: 8 gig OCZ 1:1, Fan: Water Cooling, Mobo:Striker II Formula, HDD: 2x's 150 Raptor (RAID 0), VGA: 280 GTX TRI PSU:CorsairHX1000 Windows Vista Ultimate 64

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