Quote Originally Posted by adya View Post
ok now that u have finished laughing, what strap should i use? i asked someone in another forum what strap and they said use that the 266 strap?
i told u im just learning about how straps work . im still new at this.
for 450mhz what strap should i use ? ill change it now. it keeps crashing on me when sandra stresses the ram latency and bandwidth so it must be ram related? please help? i really want to get this right. im reading as much as i can about straps but its going to take me weeks to learn all this.
Sorry man, try one of the 400 / ??? straps. It has higher latencies on the north bridge but will be a lot more stable.

It is akin to have your memory timings controlled by a predetermined group of settings. You choose the "DDR2-800" strap and it sets the memory to CL4. You choose the "DDR2-1000" strap and it sets the memory to CL5. However it does not set the actual memory speed. So you can have DDR2-1000 memory on the "DDR2-800" strap, however it will probably be unstable.