Will DDR800 be a bottleneck with Phenom?

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I'm planning on buying a new Phenom 9850 BE for my MSI K9A2...
I currently have some decent Mushkin 800mhz 4-5-4-12 ram...
I'm thinking the Phenom will OC to about 3Ghz... ish....
Anyway... will 4x1gb sticks of the ram be a bottle neck in dual channel?
I'm not sure if they'll run at DDR800 or not, depends on the overclock...\
Would it be worth the money to spend $110 on 4 gigs of 1066??
 
Yes, just to be safe buy the 1066. Usually they recomend DDR2 1066 for Quad-Core Processors

And DDR2 800 for Dual Cores
 
DDR2-800 is just fine, I'm fairly sure that a Phenom wouldn't be able of saturating the bandwidth of DDR2-800 even in single channel, unless you're running memory benchmarks, but in dual-channel DDR2-800 will more than suffice (Memory speed usually doesn't have too much impact on performance in real-life situations, though benchmarks may differ by wide margins).
 
Mr. Johanssen said:
I'm planning on buying a new Phenom 9850 BE for my MSI K9A2...
I currently have some decent Mushkin 800mhz 4-5-4-12 ram...
I'm thinking the Phenom will OC to about 3Ghz... ish....
Anyway... will 4x1gb sticks of the ram be a bottle neck in dual channel?
I'm not sure if they'll run at DDR800 or not, depends on the overclock...\
Would it be worth the money to spend $110 on 4 gigs of 1066??
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Why not OC the RAM?

MMezna said:
Yes, just to be safe buy the 1066. Usually they recomend DDR2 1066 for Quad-Core Processors

And DDR2 800 for Dual Cores
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HA! No, it doesn't depend on the core count. It depends on the HT/FSB of the processor.

If I have an old Pentium 4 with an 800Mhz FSB I can run 400Mhz DDR/DDR2 RAM with no bottleneck.
 
So if i spend $50 or so on another set of identical ram (Mushkin performance 2x1gb w/ blue hs) then i won't see much of a difference between that and 2x2gb of 1066??
 
well i plan on overclocking the phenom also (obviously, hence the BE)....
and i'd rather have 1066 at tighter timings than increase voltage and loosen timings on my ddr800...
hackapelite, thanks for the answer, i mean, i want more than one to make sure, but everyone *cough*MMezna*cough* doesn't seem to want to give decent input.
i understand i can OC my ram. i don't want to put unneeded stress on components if i can just get new sticks.
will latency be an issue?? most latancies aren't too different between 800/1066 (mines 4-5-4-11, most 1066 is 5-5-5-15)...
 
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