Asus p5w DH Deluxe and E8500 settings

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ymee

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Folks,

Just installed a E8500 C2D proc in my system (ASUS P5W DH Deluxe), running the latest BIOS and G.Skill PC6400 DDR RAM. The BIOS reports the proc bus freq as 333MHZ and the memory runs at PC5300. If I try and manually set the RAM to 800Mhz it doesn't show me that option, only 6xxMhz and 833Mhz. Is it safe to set the RAM at 833Mhz or am I missing some multiplier setting somewhere. Seems a pity to run the RAM at PC5300 speeds.

Could someone with a similar setup provide me with optimal BIOS settings? Much appreciated.
 
You should be able to run the RAM at 833MHz, although you might have to raise the voltage a bit. That's a pretty small overclock for DDR2-800 memory anyway.
 
thanks..running at 833Mhz now. System feels a lot snappier :)
 
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