The FSB will run at 1066 and will async the memory to run at a lower speed.
I used this board to upgrade to a Core 2 last fall and keep my existing
PC-3200 ram and ATI 9800pro. It ran the two speeds flawlessly. The only
issue I came across is that when I put in my Crucial Ballistix DDR400 ram I
was having issues. Turns out that the solution was to go with generic
DDR400 because this motherboard didn't like the 2-2-2-6 timings of the high
performance Crucial and the Crucial didn't like to run stable at slower
speeds based on my testing it in a few different systems. But with generic
ram I was able to run rock-solid. Of course, you will suffer a penalty for
using the DDR stuff when it comes to performance, but this board is perfect
for someone who wants to take advantage of a great combination of upgrade
avenues at a trade-off for cutting-edge performance. It also blew away my
previous setup of an Asus Nforce2 board and an Athlon XP3200+ when it came
to file encoding.


"chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Kramer wrote:
>
>>You could always pick up this motherboard:
>>
>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157092
>>
>>
>>And this processor:
>>
>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116249
>>
>>For not a whole bunch over your $100 price.... Of course, you could go
>>with
>>any 775 processor depending on how much you would want to spend, I was
>>just
>>referenceing the least expensive 'non-celeron' for an example. The main
>>benefit is that you can use your existing AGP video card and ram and still
>>have avaiable to you a PCI-Express graphics slot, two DDR2 memory slots
>>and
>>a couple of SATA controllers for upgrade paths. This motherboard will
>>also
>>support the latest Core 2 Duo chips as well, so you could really get some
>>mileage instead of spending nearly the same amount on a dead end....
>
> Careful, though, if you plan on using DDR-400 in that board, it may
> limit you to 800MHz FSB, in which case a CPU designed for 1066 FSB,
> such as the C2D, would be underclocked.
>