DDR2 800 vs 1066

[3dking3]

At some point in the near future, I am looking to upgrade my motherboard to one of the G33 chipsets. With that in mind, I also wanted to get some new memory as my old stuff is rather slow and too little. Assuming my current motherboard can work with both, is there a big difference between the two, besides the price? I am not a huge overclocker but have a 6400 that I would like to overclock some. I can't say that I know much about overclocking, or timings or multipliers, but plan to do some reading down the line. I just don't want to get the wrong ram when I read somewhere, "to easily overclock your 6400 with DDR2 XXX, just do the following." and find that I don't have the right XXX.

Thanks for the advice ahead of time.

 

[Kari]

At stock your 6400 needs only DDR2 533, so the 800 allows you to do a very nice overclock (+50%) and is way cheaper than the 1066.

 

[zenmaster]

Assuming you do not OC your RAM, DDR2-800 will let you achieve the following Speeds on the following Intel Chips.

E6300 - 2.8Ghz
E6400 - 3.2Ghz
E6600 - 3.6Ghz (Do Not Expect CPU to Hit this number.)
E4300 - 3.6Ghz (Do Not Expect CPU to Hit this number.)

Normally DDR2-800 can be OC'd and as a result even the E6300 should be able to reach good speeds and as the previous poster stated DDR2-800 is fine.

DDR2-1066 will be needed if you want to seriously OC the new 1333FSB chips.

 

[3dking3]

Sweet. That is what I needed to know. DDR2 800 it is. Now the only problem is which ones......