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TheSnuke   11-07-2009 at 05:47:11 PM

I currently have a 790i and Intel Q6600 and just bought 4GB of 1600MHZ Ram. I'm about to sell my current board and CPU and buy a MSI NF980-G65 AM3 motherboard and a AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU. My question is will I be able to set my CPU to allow my RAM to run at 1600MHZ?

Here are the parts:

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130236

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103692

RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220410

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Bronze Motherboards badge TheViper   11-07-2009 at 08:10:02 PM

The motherboard supports 1600 so I don't see a problem.

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TheSnuke   11-07-2009 at 08:13:22 PM

I didn't think there would be a problem either, but some friends of mine told me my ram wouldn't run at 1600 because my CPU wouldn't allow it.. They said I'd have to overclock it a rediculous amount to get 1600MHZ out of my ram.

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Bronze Motherboards badge saint19   11-07-2009 at 08:26:50 PM

You don't need overclock the memory, just, in the BIOS, set the FSB/Memory ratio untill the 1600.

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TheSnuke   11-07-2009 at 08:31:40 PM

I just read this article and its helped me understand what I'm trying to ask: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_divider

So my question now is.. Does this motherboard have separate memory and FSB lanes?

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