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Which one?: Corsair 8500 CL5 or Corsair 6400 CL3

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VSD   07-20-2006 at 07:18:45 PM

Yes, I know they both are expensive and top notch.

The price is very similar.

That´s the question.


Regards.

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Lamy   07-20-2006 at 08:44:25 PM
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just wondering... what setup will you be putting this on ? Chances are you will be better off with the tighter timings

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Heyyou27   07-20-2006 at 08:50:14 PM
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Core 2 Duo will not be able to use the extra bandwidth of PC2 8500, so you'd probably be better off with the lower latency 6400.

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VSD   07-20-2006 at 09:04:12 PM
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It will be a Conroe X6800.

Mobo?. Perhaps an Asus P5B but I´ve heard I won´t be able to use two graphics cards because of the 965 chipset. And the 975 is an older one.

So I don´t know.

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tmac   07-21-2006 at 11:05:53 PM
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Quote :

Yes, I know they both are expensive and top notch.

The price is very similar.

That´s the question.


Regards.



I'm also interested in these two chips. - getting a conroe extreme-

I think they actually maybe the same chip. Corsair up the voltage, either
to get higher speed or tigher timing. Either way, you could do the
same.

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RichPLS   07-22-2006 at 02:35:10 AM
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Whichever is cheaper... since the 8500 will run 6400 speed with lowered timings, it depends which is cheaper in this case, since they are probably same memory, just different SPD settings...
That is an advantage with Conroe over AM2 designs... Conroe does not require low latency expensive DDR800 for decent performance, since good performance can be had using cheaper DDR533 at 1:1 synchronously

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