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Now I am trying to choose among ASUS P5B Deluxe, P5W DH or even Intel 975XBX. I have a general question, 965G and P chipsets use memory controllers that support DDR2 800. But 975X chipsets doesn't support 800, it is uptill 667. So on Intel 975XBX max DDR2 is specified 667. But P5W DH specs...

Awesome, extensive comments by hans007. Hats off to you man!!!!!!

I was able to obtain 1.8 V memory, most of them were out of stock. So got an RMA to return the motherboard. Now looking at ASUS P5B Deluxe / with Wi-Fi. Any advice on choice?

I guess I will go with CT2KIT12864AA80E DDR2 PC2-6400 ? CL=5 ? UNBUFFERED ? NON-ECC ? DDR2-800 ? 1.8V ? 128Meg x 64 This memory is shown as tested memory on Intel website. Only other thing that bothers is on Crucial website it is 421.99 bucks. I may search and find a deal for $400...

Yes. But to utilize the motherboard to full extent need to run at 800 MHz. I skimmed through other blogs, I guess most of them have this problem. Say if I buy ballistic and change bios settings CL to 4 and voltage to 2.1 V. I guess there is an option for this. Will it be okay. Even XMS2...

I bought an Intel DG965OT motherboard for Conroe E6600 processor. Motherboard specification says ---- 1.8 V (only) DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts Unbuffered, single-sided or double-sided DIMMs with the following restriction: Double-sided DIMMs with x16 organization are not...