According to the specs, YES, the board will support up to a 1.6 GHz. Best non DDR, look at the ECS K7S5A. Uses either SDRAM or DDR RAM. A "no frills" board that has very limited overclocking ability and you'd have to add a RAID controller card. But, for $65.00 it's a steal! And it is one of the fastest DDR boards around. Not sure how that translates to SDRAM speed but should be a good performer.