Did I screw myself over?

[FFBmage]

I just ordered a MSI K9A2GM-FIH motherboard / Athlon XP 64 x2 5400+ Black Edition and pQI 4gb (2x2 dual channel) DDR2 533 (PC 4200) ram. I wasn't really thinking about the ram's FSB speed but the price when I was ordering and now I'm thinking I may have ordered ram that was a bit on the slow side. I will be using a Geforce 9800GT 512mb DDR3 card in this rig as it is going to be my gaming system. Should I just stick with the PC 4200 ram or order something like DDR 2 800 and send this send this stuff back?
And for those wondering about the 'Black Edition'...yes, I do plan to overclock it to 3.1 or 3.2.

 

[Christobevii3]

DDR2 800 corsair is like $20 after rebate, the cost difference isn't huge so I'd go ahead and do it.

 

[Aquaman78]

is the difference between the 2 noticeable in gaming?

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Aquaman78
is the difference between the 2 noticeable in gaming?

You might be able to measure it through benchmarks and timedemos, but I doubt you'd be able to see a "seat of your pants" difference.

Many of the faster RAM on the market is just factory overclocked slower stuff anyways. The only DDR2-533 that I owned clocked up to around 700MHz without additional voltage and close to 800MHz with a very minor bump in voltage. YMMV, but you should be able to get something, perhaps the next speed grade (DDR2-667) with maybe a tenth or so more voltage.

 

[Denithor]

Well, it might be noticeable if you cannot run your cpu to its fullest because of ram that won't go fast enough. From the perspective of bandwidth, no big difference due to the integrated memory controller.