Much improvment with native DDR2 1066 over 800?

[Dkcode]

I have my eye on two motherboards. The Abit IP-35 Pro and the ASUS P5K Deluxe. I have always been a ASUS man but the Abit board has caught my eye as i especially like the layout and the price is not to shoddy either.

Basically the P5K can run DDR2 1066 memory at its native speed where as the IP-35 Pro has no mention of this. Is there a big speed difference in real world apps running RAM @ 1066Mhz over 800?

 

[BenchZowner]

There's none real-life performance difference ( except a small one in some File Archiving programs ) from changing your memory timings or frequency.
Be it DDR2-800 3-3-3-4, be it DDR2-1000 4-4-4-12, be it DDR2-1300 5-5-5-15, the real-life performance will not change ( except the File Archivers that I mentioned )
If you wanna see measurements to prove that, check my site's first memory roundup where we kept the CPU Frequency & FSB stable, and changed only the timings and/or the memory timings

And by the way, the IP35 Pro can run the RAM @ 1066 natively as well.

 

[Dkcode]

Thanks for the information man. Its exactly what i wanted to know

 

[lopri]

If not for the Penryn upgrade, I'd recommend Bad Axe 2 or other quality 975X boards over any P965 or P35 board.

 

[cmdrdredd]

There are some instances where higher bandwidth gives a better result. I think, under Vista which uses up almost all your available memory that having it run at a higher frequency would yield marginally faster load times on your most used applications. Other than that most games and things will not have any bonus. Tighter timings will yield better results across the board usually. Bonus if you can do both.