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Sorry for the late reply.. Tried to find the time to read that all, haven't finished it yet but looks very interesting. I ordered some Corsair 512MB DDR2-667 XMS sticks for a good price though. I'd rather wait to buy 2GB DDR2-800 or higher when prices drop and timings are tighter. Thanks for...

I'm on a socket A 2000+ and going for AM2 (for all the good reasons stated above + passive nF5). Prices for single core AM2 CPUs dropped recently, so I went out and bought an AM2 3500+. If you're going single core, then there will probably be no significant performance increase of DDR2-800...

I'm going for the MSI K9N Platinum. Don't know if it's the best all around though. Some reviews: http://hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=1923 http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mai...-sli-platinum-nf570ultra-nf570sli.html http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/5000+FX62/index.htm

Strange that they didn't include it in the nF5 review.. Thanks for the link! Hadn't read that one yet. My guess is they didn't use tRAS 12 in those AM2/nF5 reviews for nothing. Anyone know if I'd be able to run the above OCZ memory at this timing? If not, I think I'll just buy the second kit...

Not sure if I'll be overclocking, maybe just a bit if I have performance problems. :) Hm, what do you mean by keeping the RAM divider the same? I'm still learning..

I learned that with nForce4, the optimal tRAS setting was around 7. Is there anything similar going on with AM2/nForce5? I have my eyes on this memory for my future AM2 build. I can get it fairly cheap and it has a lot of headroom left, if I am to believe the reviews. The only problem is...

Hm..after looking around a bit on the web, I'm beginning to think that JPH1121's advice is well justified and that there is little point in running @800 over 667 for a single core. The t-break preview shows marginal differences, sometimes even better for 667. It took me a while but I finally...

I've been looking around but I can't find the thread you mention. And the search function only shows me threads from March and older. :( Hm, don't those charts I posted already show that DDR2-800 outperforms DDR2-667 at any timings? So why would I slow down the memory and tighten the timings...

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Do you mean buy DDR2-800 memory, run it @ 667 and then tighten the timings? Otherwise I'm not quite sure what you mean. ;) Are there any DDR2-800 sticks with 5-5-5 timings out there that can run @ 667 with 4-4-4 timings?

According to these and other charts, there should be an improvement with DDR2-800 over DDR2-667. Of course, those charts are for dual cores. I see something similar here. They used an A64 3500+ with DDR2-800 memory, but I'm not sure if the CPU is a final model. Hence my question.

Apparantly only dual core AM2 CPUs officially support DDR2-800, but I was wondering if you can run memory at that speed with a single core AM2 Athlon64 3500+, or will you be forced to use DDR2-667? Thanks.

I know some basics about memory, but I'm no expert. I read that on S939 systems, putting in 4 x 512MB sticks can hurt performance as the command rate has to switch to 2T. Now I don't know exactly what this is but I can understand this is bad. Will there be something similar on the AM2 platform...

Where did you learn this? I was wondering about it..

nVidia is using the new AMD socket as an excuse for their launch of NF5, but in fact their NF4 is still compatible with AM2. I don't think anyone knows which of the two is actually better since the chipset has to mature a bit first to find all the bugs, imo.