Can new AM2 mobos overclock DDR2-800?
I am interested in buying a new AM2 mobo and have been considering the following: ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4. I am new to OC, but have been reading many articles on it. I feel comfortable with looking into OC'ing the CPU, but I am still confused on how to OC the DDR2-800. It appears the ASUS mobo above can set the memory frequence (not sure about the GA) to one of 4 options [400, 533, 667, 800]. An article I read on Tom's Hardware page, said that the AM2 chips will automatically choose and set the clock divider. Most of the articles on OC'ing memory discuss using DDR[1] not DDR2. So how are people taking DDR2-800 memory and overclocking it to 900 and greater? Will the Boards I mentioned above support this? What memory should I buy? Should I buy Crucial or some other brand (I used Crucials memory configurator to find compatible memory). OZC does not appear to be support on these mobos.
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