Hi i run ganged all the time my hightes posted front FBS was 245 with my DDR-2 800 A-DATA 5-5-5-18 2t ram was running about 980 . I use a 3.003 ghz. mulit x13 FBS 231 ram running at 924 from my 24/7 clock . My 9850 be not as good a chip as that 9950 you got . My max posted has been 3.2 ghz .