3500 vs 3200LL

[Stain]

Looking at Kingston HyperX Memory thier modules have the following timings:
PC3200 - 400MHz settings: 2-2-2-6-1 (CAS Latency 2)
PC3500 - 434MHz settings: 2-3-3-7-1 (CAS Latency 2)

Two questions:
1. Can the PC3500 run 2-2-2-6-1 at 400MHz?
2. Which is better for overclocking beyond 400MHz?

 

[richdun]

1. not sure, sorry.

2. I've _heard_ that PC3500 is out there for one and only one reason: overclockers. Intel has no plans to go to a higher FSB than 800Mhz (matched with PC3200) until late 2004 at the earliest, and most likely early to mid-2005 (when they might take Prescott P4's to a 1066Mhz FSB, which would go, barring my bad math, with DDR RAM at 533 MHz...PC4300?). I've seen plenty of reviews where the new Springdale and Canterwood chipsets with 800QPB P4 have been overclocked to at least 215 MHz FSB (which at 2x becomes ~430Mhz, PC3500). As for the AMD side, well it sounded like you're using an Intel setup since you're using 400Mhz as your base to overclock from. So it would seem that if you want to go much higher than 400Mhz, use the PC3500.

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