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Way to come and ask questions, then deny help “because you read an article”
You obviously have you mind made up, but let me clear some things up…
The board supports 800mhz, it will clock the voltage up accordingly, maybe not if you get the $250 a-stick-super-ultra-low-latency-runs-at-2.4v, but they sell the memory on their own damn site, pre-configured.
Secondly DDR2-667 runs at 166mhz, With the Double Data Rating and the improves signaling you get to 667. This kills the latency of the memory, in fact by half, DDR3 reduces the latency again by half.
Is the 800 vs the 667 going to change the performance of the whole system?
More than likely you wouldn’t notice, but since its only $30 on a $500 system, why not get it…Or maybe pump that bitch to 4Gb of 667. Especially since photoshop eats memory faster then kobayashi eats hot dogs.