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I'm still in the process of building a new PC which will be used mainly
for home/multimedia use, including video editing and audio/video
compression tasks (not much games use).
I know low latency memory is an advantage, but I'm not sure if it will
give me a noticable speed impovement for the fairly heavy extra cost
factor.
The Ram I was looking at is 2x512Mb Corair TwinX-XL PC3200 XLPT which is
DDR400, Cas2, 2-2-2-5 latency. Would this memory configuration be
significantly faster than much cheaper twin-DDR (still Cas2) options that
don't have the low 2-2-2-5 latency?
Quick machine spec is: Abit AV8 mobo, Athlon 64 3700 "San Diego" CPU (1MB
L2 cache), ATI 9800SE All-in-Wonder AGP graphics card, Vantec Ion 2 350W
PSU.
Also, on the HD front, I plan to use an existing 80MB Ultra-DMA EIDE hard
drive as the boot drive and a new DiamondMax 250MB SATA-150 drive as the
main data drive. Would my system be noticably faster if I got a newer
SATA drive for the boot drive also, or isn't there much different between
EIDE and SATA in the real world?
Thanks for anyone's help.
Kind Regards,
Andre
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Andre Willey
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I'm still in the process of building a new PC which will be used mainly
for home/multimedia use, including video editing and audio/video
compression tasks (not much games use).
I know low latency memory is an advantage, but I'm not sure if it will
give me a noticable speed impovement for the fairly heavy extra cost
factor.
The Ram I was looking at is 2x512Mb Corair TwinX-XL PC3200 XLPT which is
DDR400, Cas2, 2-2-2-5 latency. Would this memory configuration be
significantly faster than much cheaper twin-DDR (still Cas2) options that
don't have the low 2-2-2-5 latency?
Quick machine spec is: Abit AV8 mobo, Athlon 64 3700 "San Diego" CPU (1MB
L2 cache), ATI 9800SE All-in-Wonder AGP graphics card, Vantec Ion 2 350W
PSU.
Also, on the HD front, I plan to use an existing 80MB Ultra-DMA EIDE hard
drive as the boot drive and a new DiamondMax 250MB SATA-150 drive as the
main data drive. Would my system be noticably faster if I got a newer
SATA drive for the boot drive also, or isn't there much different between
EIDE and SATA in the real world?
Thanks for anyone's help.
Kind Regards,
Andre
--
Andre Willey
Address edited to avoid spam. Please remove the letters shown in CAPITALS
from my quoted email address to contact me directly. Thanks!
Visit http://www.cix.co.uk/~neverland/dlp/ for the Disneyland-Paris FAQ
List.