Granite Bay with DDR333?

[Shockwave44]

I'm building a new system and I'm looking at getting a Gigabyte GA-8INXP using the E7205 (Granite Bay) chipset. I thought that the E7205 only supported dual channel DDR266, so what happens if I put some dual channel DDR333 in there? Will the system work and just use lower timings for the memory or can it make use of the extra speed? I'm looking at buying this:
http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80060-15
It says it's tested for the E7205 so I guess that already really answers my question to whether or not it would work, but will it run at 333 or 266? Also, if I put two pairs of this memory in will the memory run slower then it would if there was only one pair?

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[jlanka]

answered in other forum. It's not good forum netiquette to cross post.

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[LtBlue14]

two pairs will probably work at 266 speeds, but even that's not a guarantee
the more memory banks are full, the more instable the system becomes, unfortunately.
if you want 1GB of memory, get 2x512 instead of 4x256
also, if you're overclocking you may want to get DDR333 or higher, otherwise just get DDR266.
good latency timings will increase performance by a few percentage points
so: yes ddr333 will run at 333 speeds (if you tell it to in the BIOS), but you will not see a speed increase (or maybe a very tiny one) unless you're overclocking. you're better off with 266 with good timings (you may have to set these timings in the BIOS)
and: two pairs of memory will not make the system slower, just possibly more unstable

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