There’s plentry of noise at the moment about useing super-fast memory in your PC. As far as im concernced, it’s mostly a con. All you need is memory that matches the speed of your frontside bus (FSB) data stream. For example, an Intel Core 2 E63000 processor with its 1,066MHZ quad-pumped FSB only needs DDR2-533 memory to work optimally, necause the base clock speed for both is 266MHZ... For the rest check out my blog http://blogurself.com/blog/technology/dont-buy-fast-memory/
Funny stuff. The fast RAM is meant for overclocking, otherwise it's pointless. The faster RAM comes into play when you increase your FSB speed, which in turn overclocks the CPU. Obviously if you start increasing your base FSB speed, lets say from 266MHZ to 300MHz, you now have a 1200MHZ quad pumped FSB and will need DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) RAM in order to run on the overclocked settings. So yeah, of course it's useless if you're not going to overclock, but that's the whole point to begin with. The RAM is made and marketed towards overclockers and enthusiasts. I know you mentioned it in the article at the very bottom btw.