I was really looking forward to reading this and finding out where the sweet spot is for timings and speed.
All synthetic benches and all on one system, Wtf. Don't run 3dmarko1 and tell me it's the same as running fear, run fear and show me. Why not run a dual core,single core and a p4 then say it's not worth it. Theres no regard for chipset, cpu or real world results. I want to see gaming, encoding and multi tasking results on a few systems.
5% is a real increase if you ask me, if a vid card had that over the competition they would crown it king and we would pay $200 more. Most of us go to great length for 5% more, hell even 2%.
I think this guy just had to meet a dead line and used his own system. I just want this to be handled like a mobo test or graphic card with more then one settup and some real world apps. Just a waste of ten pages.
I say buy good ram push it as high as it will go at low timings, 3%-5% is better then no increase. Plus good hardware is good hardware.
I find this way to weired I had it out with a dude about this in a post I showed him my benches and clock speeds and he said bs. I could'nt care about the bs part but I showed him I flashed my system bios and video bios. What I did was change the timings for the ram and cpu what I did was slow down the ram timing a bit to increase the clock speed than benched. I than went vise a versa and discoverd that the inbetween setting was perfect and I was able to go 125 mhz faster than the clock speed with tight timing for the ram. That speed was the video the cpu is 385 mhz faster than the clock speed
I say buy good ram push it as high as it will go at low timings, 3%-5% is better then no increase. Plus good hardware is good hardware.
3-2-2-7 1T The performance lies in RAS to CAS delay while the CAS can be easily made up with Mhz.
Works for Crucial Ballistix 512MB PC3200/PC4000 only.
The other more expensive altrnative is to use modules with Winbond BH-5 then push it to 250Mhz+ 2-2-2-7 1T using ~3.4V
From what I could tell, the Row Precharge (x-x-X-x) is the main hitter on performance, than again, if you look at the way memory is accessed, you'd think CAS would be the main one.
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