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Old 18th May 2008
DrJ DrJ is offline
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You might have mentioned it. If you use the CPU at its stock speed, then there is no advantage to a faster memory speed. If your motherboard allows for increasing the CPU speed (by increasing the FSB), and you use it, then it is an advantage. For $5 it is worth it unless you are opposed in all cases to overclocking.

FWIW, usually you can up the FSB from a 1066 bus to 1333 without a CPU voltage change. The latter bus speed is still 667, but you have some headroom if you use 800MHz memory.
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