ddr2-800 slowing down the rest of my machine?

[leokreizman]

Hello all,
I have to replace my abit IP35 for various reasons so i figured might as well buy the new 3.16 wolfdale, and put it in with my 8800GTX, and 4gb a-data DDR2-800 RAM. I'm probably getting the gigabyte s-board or whatever its called for around 110-120 (bad experiences with asus and abit) and so im wondering, is my ddr2 ram limiting the rest of my machine?
Note: i have proper air cooling and 700W of power, and most likely will not want to overclock.
thanks guys!

 

[royalcrown]

No, it wont limit it to where you'd notice, you're talking in the 1 or 2 fps max.

 

[M3d]

As opposed to ddr3? No. From what i have read here and some of the benchmarks (http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2989)
there are only marginal gains from going to ddr3 from ddr2 with current gen processors. Its an old review but I think the consensus around here is that it still holds true.

If you are talking about using higher frequency memory the 1333FSB wolfdale uses ddr2-667 at stock speeds. So your memory is fine.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Your 800 ram will be running faster then your CPU can feed it.

You cpu will be running 333.33 quad pumped and your ram will be running 400 double pumped. If anything your cpu will bottle neck the ram unless you run the cpu at 400 instead of 333.