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Originally Posted by MikeSty
Do you really have much choice? AFAIK you MUST run at the lowest speed.
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No, you don't. You'll fry the slower memory unless you get some really good cooling on there, but it is technically possible to run RAM at higher than specified speed.
As for the dual channel thing, my A7N8X supports assymmetric dual channel. I have 768 mb (256 on one channel, 512 on the other in 3 256mb sticks) and it runs dual channel beautifually. I can't see them removing the feature on the A8V, unless the Via chipset hates it.
And I'd steer clear of the Raptor. I've seen three fail personally within a year and a half of purchase and heard stories of more. Plus, 36gb just isn't practical and the boost in performance of 10 000 rpm over 7200 rpm just isn't signifigant enough to justify the extra trouble. The Caviar with 8mb cache will do you just fine, I reckon.