CL2 FAST? or CL3 TURBO? and 256CAS2 or 512CAS3????

[Guest]

I heard that if your RAM can't handle setting of 2-2-2 then it should ahndle setting or 3-2-2 or 2-2-3, like mine does.
3-2-2 is defined as CAS3 TURBO (CL3 turbo) and 2-2-3 is defined as CAS2 FAST (CL2 FAST) (therefore 2-2-2 is CAS2 TURBO, but my RAM can't do that!). So which one is faster?
Also I have 128mb of Kingmax CAS2 memory
another 128Mb of CAS2 CompUSA memory(both work at 2-2-2)
and another 256mb of Generic CAS2.5 memory (goes iether 3-2-2 or 2-2-3)
I play games, mostly like Tribes2, AoF, Max Payne and others... I run WinME,
So I can either have 256Mb of CAS2@2-2-2 or 512 of CAS2.5!2-2-3 or 3-2-2. Which option is better? (all RAMs that are listed here are pc133)

Thank, You.

 

[silverpig]

Well, Max Payne is the most taxing of those games, and it runs well with 256 megs. More ram probably won't help the performance out any. CAS2, on the other hand, will. So I suggest going with 256 at CAS2 if that's what you're using the computer for. If you need the extra ram in other applications, then the drop from 2-2-2 to 2-2-3 isn't that big.

I have Max Payne too by the way. Awesome game. I had 128 megs of PC133 CAS 2, but noticed frequent swapping, so I went out and bought an extra 256 megs today. No problems at all now. The game runs smooth as silk. I just wish my GF2 would be able to handle something more than 1024x768x32, or could do FSAA at that res. Oh well.

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