I have had a slightly similar experience, but with a QX9650 (the four cpu big brother of the wolfdale).  I have both an Asus 
motherboard and an Asus video card with expensive Corsair memory that was certified by Asus at 1066.  From the online forum, I found 
that in order to run at 1066 I needed to enable SLI memory in the bios.  Then it would run, but was completely unstable.  When I 
backed off to 800, it became mildly stable, only crashing several times a day.  My wife has the same system, but she runs XP Home 
and I  run Vista.  Her system is far more stable than mine, but she has to run at 800, too.

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayman White" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:06 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Issues with New Build (Memory issue)


Hello,

I have an issue with my new build.

Hardware specs: Gigabyte EP45-DS3L (BIOs ver. F9)
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X 2GB PC2-8500/DDR2/1066MHz
CPU: Wolfdale 3.16 GHz, 1333MHz FSB

My motherboard will not recognize my RAM as 1066. It sees it as 800. I upgraded to the latest BIOS, but still will not recognize it 
to 1066.

Any ideas on getting it to see the whole 1066?  Is there a big difference between 800 and 1066?  Could I damage my hardware by 
tweaking the BIOS settings?

Thanks.

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