quick memory spec for this motherboard please?

stephentw · 3 Apr 2009 at 21:31

http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=812&l4=0&model=2579&modelmenu=1

Asus P5N7A-VM

I originally just picked a dual channel set off the QVL but thought something else might be better.

Preferred OCZ but if anything else will be better and under £50 I'm open to ideas

Probably be a quad core cpu, not sure exactly which one yet.

stephentw · 5 Apr 2009 at 21:00

Will that be compatible? It's not on the QVL but I'm not sure that really matters does it?

stephentw · 6 Apr 2009 at 13:08

Does the 1066MHz speed matter? The specs say the board accepts 600 or 800. My CPU is going to be a 9550 I think which is 1333FSB. Do all these crazy numbers have to match up? I seem to remember in the past if they didn't the whole lot would go at the lowest speed, is that the case?

stephentw · 6 Apr 2009 at 15:38

So if this will run down to 800mhz won't I be better getting 800mhz ram? Or are you saying I can manually adjust the bios to allow the ram to run at it's native speed of 1066mhz? Or do you mean the adjustments in the bios just make the ram work at 800mhz.

If I'm not planning on overclocking it at all though, could I just shove it in and thats that, or will I have a pain fiddling on with it to get it to work.

stephentw · 6 Apr 2009 at 20:45

Ah ok, I get it. I might not just "shove it in" then