Cl8 and Cl9 memory

Hi guys, long time no post
Ok I was in OCUK yesterday buying and SSD drive for my PC and while I was there I asked for a price on some memory to match my Gskill Ripjaws (F3-12800CL8, they had none but the guy said for 35 notes you could buy 8gb of the CL9 (12800CL9) and maybe mix, he wasn't 100% sure if they would work but I have them running and all seems ok after playing hours on MW3 last night. Question, is it safe to do this?
Next question, I bought my SSD knowing that my motherboard is not sata 3 therefore I will not get full speed out of my drive until I get one, but are there any things I can do to get the most out of it until then? I think its only running at half speed until I get the pennies to get the next mobo.
I have my setting in Bios to ACHI mode, but not sure if there are other settings to change.
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Yes it is safe, just means that all your memory will be running at the slowest speed

google ssd windows 7 optimisation and youll find loads of guides... did you do a fresh install or just ghost over your windows install? you'll need to do a fresh install for best results as win 7 will optimise itself to a certain extent as it is ssd aware

Hi, thanks for the quick response, yeah I did a fresh install, left everything on my other sata drive so I can pick from it

Make sure you turn of Disk Defrag as there is no need for this on a SSD.

I also lower my paging file as well from 9gig to 4096.
I disabled windows restore as well but you do this at your own risk as if anything goes
badly wrong you will have to re-install again but it does save space on the drive.
I also turned off hibernation and changed power options for performance and turned off sleep mode for the drive.

Windows 7 will take care of the rest of the stuff for the drive.

Thanks, done that, just system restore to turn off. I have 3 more sata drives to save any info, no prob with that. Just hope I don't get too many good games now

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/

Good all-in-one guide, as it explains what (most of) the steps actually do.