e8500 cpu with ddr2@1066 ram question

[slick2010]

would ddr2 ram @ 1066 speed bottleneck this cpu?

 

[happy medium]

No not at all. Make sure your motherboard has a memory divider option in bios.

 

[betasub]

Not sure what is being asked here - but either at stock or overclocked, the e8500 is unlikely to be memory limited (very few apps are that bandwidth intensive, although synthetic benchmarks can be).

Bottleneck, schmottleneck.

 

[Udgnim]

1066 DDR2 RAM exists to give plenty of room to OC the CPU / FSB