Greetings
I'm a hardware noob, and I have tried to read a lot more than I have understood.
My current motherboard is a Socket 745/Athlon 64 with three memory slots. I read that if I actually used all three slots, the memory would run slower.
Now I'm about to upgrade to a P45 based board (probably a Gigabyte) with a E8400 CPU, and I'm wondering if there are any similar restrictions on modern boards. I.e., can I fill out the entire 16 GB that the board allows at the RAM's maximum speed?
Also, the board appears to support DDR2 RAM at 1066 MHz (and some versions even at 1200 MHz). I read someone saying that anything above 800 HMz is wasted due to the speed of the FSB. Is this correct?
Kind regards
Lasse
I'm a hardware noob, and I have tried to read a lot more than I have understood.
My current motherboard is a Socket 745/Athlon 64 with three memory slots. I read that if I actually used all three slots, the memory would run slower.
Now I'm about to upgrade to a P45 based board (probably a Gigabyte) with a E8400 CPU, and I'm wondering if there are any similar restrictions on modern boards. I.e., can I fill out the entire 16 GB that the board allows at the RAM's maximum speed?
Also, the board appears to support DDR2 RAM at 1066 MHz (and some versions even at 1200 MHz). I read someone saying that anything above 800 HMz is wasted due to the speed of the FSB. Is this correct?
Kind regards
Lasse