kickass2009
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Ok lets say your computer was running a
Athlon 64 3200+ Cpu
Either a MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R VIA K8T800 OR ASUS K8V Deluxe VIA K8T800 Motherboard
ASUS Radeon 9800XT/VTD 256MB
And two Western Digital 36GB S-ATA, 10K RPM in Raid 0
And you want 1024mb of Memory.
You decided you want either
1GB (512MBx2) PC4000 DDR500 CAS3 (OCZ5001024ELDC-K) -this is OCZ Memory
OR
TWINX1024-3200LLPRO 2x512MB PC3200 -This is corsair
The OCZ memory has a setting of 3-4-4-8
AND
The Corsair Memory has a setting of 2-3-2-6
The OCZ memory runs at 500mhz but the Latency is only 3-4-4-8, which seems slow. The corsair runs at 400mhz and has a fast latency if 2-3-2-6
My question is what memory would be faster? Even though the latency is 3-4-4-8 on the OCZ will the 100mhz extra make a huge perfomance gain when playing games with all setting turned on. Is there a point of getting DDR500 if your not overclocking? And if you change the latency in your BIOS to much will it fry the memory and the memory wont work ever again or will the computer not boot up and all you have to do is change the memory back to it original setting?
I got one more question if the Athlon doesnt support dual channel memory (im not sure if it does or doesnt I have to check) is there a point of getting (2)512mb memory sticks as appossed to one 1024mb memory stick.
Athlon 64 3200+ Cpu
Either a MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R VIA K8T800 OR ASUS K8V Deluxe VIA K8T800 Motherboard
ASUS Radeon 9800XT/VTD 256MB
And two Western Digital 36GB S-ATA, 10K RPM in Raid 0
And you want 1024mb of Memory.
You decided you want either
1GB (512MBx2) PC4000 DDR500 CAS3 (OCZ5001024ELDC-K) -this is OCZ Memory
OR
TWINX1024-3200LLPRO 2x512MB PC3200 -This is corsair
The OCZ memory has a setting of 3-4-4-8
AND
The Corsair Memory has a setting of 2-3-2-6
The OCZ memory runs at 500mhz but the Latency is only 3-4-4-8, which seems slow. The corsair runs at 400mhz and has a fast latency if 2-3-2-6
My question is what memory would be faster? Even though the latency is 3-4-4-8 on the OCZ will the 100mhz extra make a huge perfomance gain when playing games with all setting turned on. Is there a point of getting DDR500 if your not overclocking? And if you change the latency in your BIOS to much will it fry the memory and the memory wont work ever again or will the computer not boot up and all you have to do is change the memory back to it original setting?
I got one more question if the Athlon doesnt support dual channel memory (im not sure if it does or doesnt I have to check) is there a point of getting (2)512mb memory sticks as appossed to one 1024mb memory stick.