Asus Crosshair III

So i'm building a new Ph2 rig (was going with core i7 before but couldn't justify the amount of money i needed to spend on it.)


So i've been searching for a board with DDR3 support, that could hold the Ph2, and give some nice features with it


Originally i was dead set on a Nvidia chipset board, because well me and ATI just don't get along very well. However, it seems like there were no DDR3 boards to be found with the Nvidia chipset(atleast ones from Asus, Foxconn ect.)

So now my question on this is, my board i'm looking at has

Memory Standard DDR3 1600(O.C.) / 1333 / 1066

in it's specifications, does that mean i can only hit 1600 if I O.C something? because i was planning on using 8 gigs of OCZ Special Ops DDR 3 (2 pairs of this.)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] cial%20ops

No, 1600 means you can use RAM at that speed once you adjust the timings in the Bios....If you were to overclock that same Ram it would be over 1600Mhz.....

That combo is sweet....LoL

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haha, thinking of throwing a 4870 x2 in there as well.


thanks for the info though.

I had read some reviews that the GTX 275 outperforms the 4890, which is kind of depressing, (infact i think it was a tomshardware review.)

that article seems really biased, and contradicting to some other reviews i've read, but i will keep it in mind now. I've always been a Nvidia/AMD fan though..