Asus M3A79-T Deluxe

[esaym]

It means that the speed will be 800 for 4 stick unless you overclock.

That will depend on the CPU. What phenom arson you getting bland what sort of overclock you going for?

That sounds kinda crummy. Why would they limit it like that on 4 sticks vs 2 sticks? Or is 800mhz just the normal speed?

I am not sure of the cpu yet. It will be one of the newer phenoms, the x2,x3, or x4 depending on how much heat I think I can take...

I don't plan on overclocking if I can help it.

[Mechromancer]

That sounds kinda crummy. Why would they limit it like that on 4 sticks vs 2 sticks? Or is 800mhz just the normal speed?

I am not sure of the cpu yet. It will be one of the newer phenoms, the x2,x3, or x4 depending on how much heat I think I can take...

I don't plan on overclocking if I can help it.

The Phenom II memory controller in the AM2+ CPUs is made to handle only one dimm per memory channel. I'm not sure if this was changed in the AM3 CPUs, but I doubt it was. I have they are more tolerant of clocking with 4 dimms. I can even run 4 dimms on my old Phenom II 940 with mixed matched memory as long as I run pretty lose timings and give the memory decent voltage. Unfortunately I still got an error here and there under high loads so I just went back to running the 8 gigs of ram I have at 800mhz.