Hardware that supports DDR2-800 and 900 RAM?

[axemanrio]

I've seen PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) and PC2-7200 (DDR2-900) on sale and wanted to understand:

1. whether there are mobos supporting these RAM frequencies

2. are those frequencies standard or OC'ed?

3. what the memory timings actually mean, because 5-5-5-15 seems really high but does it matter that it's high when you run 800 or 900mhz RAM?

4. has Anandtech reviewed these RAM modules?

Thanks!

 

[alimoalem]

don't ask if anand's reviewed it or not, go search for that. i'm pretty sure the motherboards can handle that. if they couldn't, why make such hardware? the memory timings signify lag. the higher the number, the higher the lag. there is a trade off when you OC so the higher the OC, the higher the timings. you can probably undertime those ram modules but i'm not sure how good they'd actually perform

 

[GamerExpress]

Well it would be an Intel based board that would handle that, but I don't think you would see great real world performance gains from that stuff anyway.