Motherboard tweaking?

EstoyLoco

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Ok got a question...
I bought an AMD 3000+ / 333Mhz cpu
and my motherboard supports up to 400Mhz FSB
I'm guessing however that I will be setting the FSB Frequency to 166Mhz (MB supports 100Mhz > 266Mhz FSB frequency settings) right?
and the Memory frequency to 200% of the FSB...
So the Memory Frequency will become 2x166=332Mhz

Now the MB is an nForce2, and I am wonder how does the Dual DDR work with these settings?
Also, I didn't realize that the memory frequency was limited to only 2x the FSB, otherwise I would have just bought the DDR333 instead of the DDR400.

Another thing is, would I be able to run the memory at DDR333 instead of DDR400, and use lower Memory Timings, and still keep the memory pretty stable?

I believe the memory is 6-3-3-2.5
I haven't really had a chance other than open the boxes real quick, before I had to goto work, but managed to grab the MB manual, so I'm reading through it right now
 

LED

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Your better off with the Higher Mem as you can still set the FSB above 166 on most NForcey's giving a boost on the CPU and Memory settings or you can lower/tighten the latency's...As far as the Dualship goes, you will only get a minimal boost as effects the built in Graphic cards moreso but put the RAM in Slots 1&3 or 2&3 in most Cases...RTManual for further details