So I got my new stuff today. A MSI P45 Motherboard, 2gb of OCZ 1066 ram and a 9800gt pci-e. I Exicitedly hooked everything up and pressed the juice. I got some MSI screen on the startup and missed the del button to go to bios, it went on to start windows and gave me a OS load error, I restarted and got into bios setting the boot sequence right and then got out. The computer restarted itself and the screen never came back. It just sat there blank. I turned it off and on and nothing. Fan runs, vid card fan runs, hds spin but screen remains blank. I kept turning it off and on hoping it might work and eventually I got the MSI screen again. I had to get my old HP out of mothballs just to post this in hope that I might get some ideas....
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Okay I went through a lot of things and what finally worked was pulling the 1066 ram and putting in 667 ram. My question is this I have a Q6600 which is 1066 FSB and I thought if I can get 1066 ram that would be cool. Should it work or is the ram not right with the processor? Also updating the bios. How do I do that? And how would I have done that when I couldnt even get the a picure? 
From reading the above it sounds like you hooked everything up using a hdd that had windows on from you previous build and if that is the case its proberbly your problem because after changing the mobo you will need to do a complete reinstall of windows using a windows cd not a recovery cd from your old build
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1066FSB runs at 266MHz since it's quad-pumped (266MHz*4transfers/clock=1066MTs[MegaTransfers/second]). DDR2-1066 runs at 533MHz because it's DDR (Dual/Double Data Rata) and (533MHz*2transfers/clock=1066MTs).
Regardless, the RAM should work. The rated spped of RAM is only the maximum it's supposed to handle, clocking it slower should cause no problems. I would go to BIOS and set the divider (FSB : DRAM ratio) to 1:1, and see if that does the trick (this forces the RAM to run in sync with the FSB, which under normal circumstances yields the best performance).
Well I'm RMAing the RAM because I can't even get a screen when I fire things up. I press the button and my computer becomes an air mover. I put my 667 ram into it and it runs just fine. Thank you for the explanation, it actually made sense!
I want to know would I see much improvement if I upgraded my ram to 800 or 1066 or should I just leave it? I game some but not much, I do more video editing stuff...TrainTrackHack
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Getting DDR2-1066 over DDR2-800 gives no real-life performance advntages, as long as timings are reasonably good (5-5-5-15 absolute max for DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 is good) and you have it in dual-channel. In a Tom's Hardware article they did benchmarks with several games, runnin them in the same system except they tried with and w/o dual-channel and most games only gained a few fps in dual-channel, if even that. This means that no real-life applications currently come even close to utilizing all the bandwidth of DDR2 as long as you have it in dual-channel.