ASUS A8N SLI QUESTION

[MAEleeen]

I am currently looking at purchasing an Asus A8n SLI socket 939 motherboard. I am wanting to pair this with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 1ghz fsb processor and corsair XMS 1gb (2 x 512 MB) 184 pin ddr sdram(ddr 550/pc4400 timing 2.5-4-48). This motherboard's specs list the ddr standard as ddr 400 (pc3200). I am wondering will the ddr 550 ram run on this motherboard. I have searched everywhere and can't find a socket 939 mobo that allows ram over ddr 400. This is my first build so when the ddr standard on the motherboard said ddr 400 it kinda puzzled me. Does this standard listed with the mobo mean that it will not accept ram faster?? .

 

[AppaYipYip]

It will work just fine. The DDR 550 spec is just stating that the memory can reach those speeds with the right timings. You will have to set this in the BIOS when you build your system, and this will be taken advantage of when you overclock.

 

[MAEleeen]

So if i choose not to overclock the system will the ddr 500 ram increase the speed. I have only been researching processors, ram etc for about two months so I may be incorrect. But if my motherboard and fsb on the processor both run at 1000mhz, wouldnt i need ddr 500 or ddr 550 running at dual channel to acheive the 1000mhz of the processor and mobo. I had considered ddr 400 but wouldnt this somewhat bottleneck the other components.--either way thanks for the reply because it was major concern of mine as to whether or not it would work.