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My mobo is rated at holding ram as high as DDR333, what would happen if I put DDR500 in my board? I'm looking at Mushkin or Kingston HyperX. What's better? I want to do this for overclocking. I know I need a new board too eventually, but money wise considering I want to buy the best from now on, I need to take it one step at a time.
 
Your motherboard could care less as to the rated speed of your ram. It will work fine, but probably not at DDR500.:eek: I personally use low latency Mushkin, but either of those two brands are fine ram.
 
I believe if you put the ddr500 it will underclock it self to run at ddr333 but it might not.
 
What a huge waste of money it is to upgrade right now.

When you upgrade your motherboard is when you should upgrade your memory. That way you could pay the same ammount of money you are willing to spend now and get even newer and better memory.

People only need DDR500 memory to achieve 1:1 FSB:Mem speed ratios at high overclocks. You should only get that memory if you are looking to reach at least 250mhz FSB speeds.
 
People only need DDR500 memory to achieve 1:1 FSB:Mem speed ratios at high overclocks. You should only get that memory if you are looking to reach at least 250mhz FSB speeds.
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well that's the whole point. :D my current ram sucks, so i want new ram. i'll get a new board too eventually for sure, like a couple months or something. i'm just curious if i could still get a performance gain with it using my current board. i'm at 1:1 right now and I can't get the fsb stable over 150. i was thinking it might be my generic ram. yeah, i know, i didn't know name brand memory mattered when i put my system together last year.
 
RAM is rated to handle certain speeds, but the RAM itself doesn't actually "run" at any speed. If you put DDR500 in your system, you'll have really high quality RAM running at exactly the same speed. You may be able to overclock a bit more or run more aggressive memory settings, but you don't need to get the most expensive DDR500 ever just to do that.

Raising the speedlimit to 200mph doesn't suddenly make your Geo go 200mph.
 
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