would a ddr pc3200 ram at 333 Mhz perform worst than a ddr2700 at the same 333 bus speed?

Hi you all,

Please let me know what would happend in terms of performance if I woud run
a PC3200 ddr stick of ram at 333 mhz (I mean how would this compare with a
PC2700 ddr run at the same speed 333).

Thank you

 

well, if you had a Mini and a Ferrari
and you drove the mini at 40mph, then drove the Ferrari at 40mph, what speed
would you be traveling at with both cars?



really though, the only difference would be timings, the pc3200 would run at
lower timings at 333 than the pc2700 stick i would think (well you could run
it at)

 

It depends on the memory modules.

The ratings of PC3200 and PC2700 relate to a *maximum* clock of 200MHz and
166Mhz respectively. You can of course, run the PC3200 at lower than it's
maximum rated speed.

However, when you start taking into account timings, it could be possible
for very good PC2700 to outperform very bad PC3200 if the PC2700 can reach
tight timings and the PC3200 cannot - this would be a pretty rare situation
I'd expect. Given that you'd be running the PC3200 slower than it's rated
speed, you can often tighten the timings a bit.

Short answer: could perform marginally better, and very unlikely to perform
worse.

Ben

 

Thank you guys for your short and clear answers. Have you ever heard
something about this memory I'm planning to buy:

Geil Value
512 MB DDR SDRAM
/ PC3200
/ 400 MHz / 2.55 - 2.85 V / 5 ns
CL2.5

Thank you once again.

 

It's good RAM, you'll be fine.

Ben