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I was wondering if someone could help me out?  I have a Soyo Dragon Plus mother board with an 800 mhz front side bus.  I have three memory slots.  I currently am running 1 stick of 512mb, 3200 DDR ram, in slot A, and 2 sticks of 256mb, 3200 DDR ram in slots B and C.  Am I limiting the FSB to 400 mhz because I am not running the Ram in parallel?  The instructions say to run like sticks in slots A and C to have the memory run in parallel.  Should I replace the two sticks of 256mb ram with one of 512mb and just use slots A and C?  Would that allow FSB of 800 mhz?  Todd

I dont think it matters how many sticks of ram you have.  Your ram is 400MHz FSB (PC3200).  Its the Hyper Threading that boosts it to 800MHz I believe.  so dont worry stick with what you got  ;D

You could get a little prog called CPUz.  This will tell you exactly what FSB you are running at currently I just cant remember where I got it.  Someone put a thread up in one of these forums and I got it from the link there!

FSB will stay at 400MHz, as that is the processor FSB limit

put the identical sticks in the slots that are 'in parralel', or get a second 512MB stick to replace the old 2x256 modules

Thanks for the information.  I thought I might be slowing things up a bit but it doesnt sound like after all.  Take care, Todd