2-3-2-6 vs. 2-2-2-6 ?

Hi!

I've tried to get and answer or find information about this, but without
success so far.
It's quite simple, I'm about to chose ram for my A7N8X-Deluxe (w. Barton
2500 to be run at 200Mhz).
I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)

My options are these:

CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) or
CAS Latency 2 (2-3-2-6-1T)

The price difference is $25/stick so it makes quite a difference in price.
What I wonder is, will the slightly more agressive timing of the more
expensive stick realy be worth that extra money with the settings described
above?
How big (if any measureable at all) performance difference can one expect
between these two? (the slower one matches Corsairs XMS LL dims exactly on
teh speccs).

Please comment/suggest

Best Wishes
Thomas

What chipset is that motherboard?

http://www.kingston.com/support/faqs...y/issue_12.asp

"Thomas Andersson" <> wrote in message
news:bdllkc$u3m79$...
> Hi!
>
> I've tried to get and answer or find information about this, but without
> success so far.
> It's quite simple, I'm about to chose ram for my A7N8X-Deluxe (w. Barton
> 2500 to be run at 200Mhz).
> I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
> I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)
>
> My options are these:
>
> CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) or
> CAS Latency 2 (2-3-2-6-1T)
>
> The price difference is $25/stick so it makes quite a difference in price.
> What I wonder is, will the slightly more agressive timing of the more
> expensive stick realy be worth that extra money with the settings
described
> above?
> How big (if any measureable at all) performance difference can one expect
> between these two? (the slower one matches Corsairs XMS LL dims exactly on
> teh speccs).
>
> Please comment/suggest
>
> Best Wishes
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>

BNR wrote:

>> It's quite simple, I'm about to chose ram for my A7N8X-Deluxe (w.
>> Barton 2500 to be run at 200Mhz).
>> I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
>> I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)
>>
>> My options are these:
>>
>> CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) or
>> CAS Latency 2 (2-3-2-6-1T)
>>
>> How big (if any measureable at all) performance difference can one
>> expect between these two? (the slower one matches Corsairs XMS LL
>> dims exactly on the speccs).

> What chipset is that motherboard?
>
> http://www.kingston.com/support/faqs...y/issue_12.asp

nForce2 Ultra 400
I'll check that link out.
Thanks

Best Wishes
Thomas

If you're spending another $50, you might aswell go for pc3700 and max out
your o/cability.

"Thomas Andersson" <> wrote in message
news:bdllkc$u3m79$...
> Hi!
>
> I've tried to get and answer or find information about this, but without
> success so far.
> It's quite simple, I'm about to chose ram for my A7N8X-Deluxe (w. Barton
> 2500 to be run at 200Mhz).
> I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
> I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)
>
> My options are these:
>
> CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) or
> CAS Latency 2 (2-3-2-6-1T)
>
> The price difference is $25/stick so it makes quite a difference in price.
> What I wonder is, will the slightly more agressive timing of the more
> expensive stick realy be worth that extra money with the settings
described
> above?
> How big (if any measureable at all) performance difference can one expect
> between these two? (the slower one matches Corsairs XMS LL dims exactly on
> teh speccs).
>
> Please comment/suggest
>
> Best Wishes
> Thomas
>
>
>
>

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:17:11 +0200, "Thomas Andersson"
<> wrote:

>I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
>I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)
Might want to reconsider the Kingston HX. I bought a 512 3400 stick
and it went bad the next day. The replacement (nor the original one)
wouldn't do a mhz past 400fsb without failing even though it should do
434 (or something like that) FSB. I have a stick of samsung 3200 that
does better than the KingstonHX 3400 RAM.

QED, eh ? wrote:

> If you're spending another $50, you might aswell go for pc3700 and
> max out your o/cability.

I know that, but The faster of these two is already on the outher limit and
I'm looking to save, another +$50 is definitely out of the question I'm
afraid...
Now the question still is (as originally asked), is the difference between
2226 and 2326 woth the rise of $50 while all other remains the same.

Best Wishes
Thomas

Roger Squires wrote:
> There is a recent webpage that discusses each parameter and it's
> relative effect on the memory thruput (not the kingston page). It
> was linked off of one of the major hardware sites, didn't save a link
> tho.
>
> rms

http://rojakpot.com/ maybe ?

bp wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:17:11 +0200, "Thomas Andersson"
> <> wrote:
>
>> I've decided on Kingston Hyper-X, just not what sticks to use yet.
>> I will get 2*512MB (PC3200, to be run at 100%)

> Might want to reconsider the Kingston HX. I bought a 512 3400 stick
> and it went bad the next day. The replacement (nor the original one)
> wouldn't do a mhz past 400fsb without failing even though it should do
> 434 (or something like that) FSB. I have a stick of samsung 3200 that
> does better than the KingstonHX 3400 RAM.

Not just bad luck? the reviews I've seen have given it excellent marks. IT
won't go quite as far as some others, but will go further will retaining
tighter timings from what I've seen (And I'm unlikely to OC it far beyond
200Mhz).
I'm currently googling and reading anything related to these modules that I
can find, so far nothing bad.

Best Wishes
Thomas

Roger Squires wrote:
> There is a recent webpage that discusses each parameter and it's
> relative effect on the memory thruput (not the kingston page). It
> was linked off of one of the major hardware sites, didn't save a link
> tho.
>
> rms

http://www.corsairmicro.com/main/tech.htm

Is good for CAS and general timing stuff.

In article <nospam-2906030832330001@192.168.1.177>,
says...
>
>
> The performance difference is virtually unmeasureable. Save your
> money. See my post of a few minutes ago in the Asus group for details.

ditto that--timings are meaningless to applications--the price diff is
only to separate people from their cash. I am constantly amazed at the
foolishness of otherwise knowledgeable computer users when they insist on
high timing ram. Real sucker moves as any test would show--but then such
test are never , ever found on the major hardware sites. Why not remains
another mystery.

What matters greatly tho is the speed of the module--as it increases , so
does performance in a few specialized areas , esp. games (fps ) and
encoding/decoding.
--
Best Regards,