last thing i need to know before i upgrade

[TheMorningStar]

i here that if you run 4 sticks of 8500 DDR2 with a phenom2 it will downclock the sticks to 6400. is this true?

would then overclocking to the rams 8500 speed mean the system would most likely become unstable?

i am finding it hard to locate info on this and im only going off a friends asus mobo which states the downclocking "problem". could anyone point me to a review or enlighten me please?

cheers tms

 

[nalla]

im not sure about phenoms but the same is true with intel so is poss with amd, i found this out recently as i had my q6600 clocked at 3.5ghz but when adding another 4gb ram i could only get 2.9 ghz, hope this helps,