Did I mess this up?

[squall099]

I just bought a bunch of gear on an impulse. Bad, I know...I just couldn't help myself. I got a small bonus at work and it had been four years since my last upgrade! So I basically rebuilt my system and then today I thought I remembered something from my last build...

Is the FSB of the CPU supposed to match the frequency of the RAM?

From what I think I remember, it doesn't *HAVE* to, but it is certainly better if it does. I've looked around and have noticed a lot of people running the same C2Q CPU with the same speed RAM that I have (I think). Let me know if I screwed up and should send anything back. Thanks.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor
ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
WINTEC AMPX 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x2

 

[Anchen]

The ram and cpu are just fine with each other speed wise, not familiar with that particular brand of ram though. Not the biggest fan of nvidia based motherboards, any reason you chose the 750i?

I just bought a bunch of gear on an impulse. Bad, I know...I just couldn't help myself. I got a small bonus at work and it had been four years since my last upgrade! So I basically rebuilt my system and then today I thought I remembered something from my last build...

Is the FSB of the CPU supposed to match the frequency of the RAM?

From what I think I remember, it doesn't *HAVE* to, but it is certainly better if it does. I've looked around and have noticed a lot of people running the same C2Q CPU with the same speed RAM that I have (I think). Let me know if I screwed up and should send anything back. Thanks.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor
ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
WINTEC AMPX 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x2

 

[squall099]

The ram and cpu are just fine with each other speed wise, not familiar with that particular brand of ram though. Not the biggest fan of nvidia based motherboards, any reason you chose the 750i?

Thanks for the speedy reply, I was getting worried after a long night of drinking about having to wait an extra week to send stuff back.

Well, I remembered back in 2004 the nForce2 chipsets were the way to go. That coupled with a solid score from Newegg reviews...along with having zero patience at 2am on a Saturday morning... If I had read around a bit more, I probably would have ended up with a different board. I'm not really looking to OC (though I hear the C2Q I have can get up to 3GHz pretty regularly) so I just went with stuff that I already knew.

Also, the RAM got excellent reviews and it was $40 for 4 gigs. I figured if it was a dud, it was worth the $40 risk.