Decent choice?

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130637

I actually used on of these in my friend's build and it seems to be working great for him. I'm basically getting this because of the decent cost and also because it seems roomy enough to crossfire a 5850 and a 5830. I wanted to get the fastest ram possible, and this supports 2133 but OC'd? So does that mean if I just buy stock 2133 speed memory and slap it in there it wont work? Can someone explain that to me because it's confusing me.

Also, in terms of ram sticks, would it be better to get 2 sticks or 4?
 
The board will probably default to 1333 or 1600. You will just need to go into the bios and manually set the Speed/Voltage and timing.
 
So it's simple to just set the speed? I was actually considering buying some 1866 mushkin ram, but they don't have any that's 8 gb and has a black heatspreader.
 
What it means by OCd is that it supports it, but not natively. Just like my board supports 1866-2400 OCd. If I bought 2400 memory, and manually set the memory's stock speed/timing, it would still work.

Get the 2133 and set the speed and CAS settings yourself. it is worth it.
 
But it really isn't that difficult to manually set it, right? I just have to set it in the bios?
 
Toast said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130637

also because it seems roomy enough to crossfire a 5850 and a 5830.

Also, in terms of ram sticks, would it be better to get 2 sticks or 4?
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You do know technically thats not a crossfire board. If you use one card in the first slot it runs at X16 or a single card in the second slot it runs at X8. But if you run two cards in crossfire the first slot stays at X16 and the second slots drops to X4.

Its better to have 2 sticks over 4. Puts less of a strain on the memory controller.
 
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