DDR what way to go

[Planetside]

i found this link its for GeIL Golden Dragon look here

[Planetside]

IM going to sound a right Nob naw but i dont realy no that much about tight timings. On my old asus a7n8x deluxe i was running my ddr 2100 @ 172fsb 1.1 timeing 333.2.5

[Austin]

Respect KAIN. I''ll just reiterate what I posted in the other thread. The problem is I find synthetic tests interesting but pointless. 3Dmark can at least offer some kind of real world perf evaluation but the likes of SETI and esp PIfast are pointless IMHO. Games are what's important to most people, that's the main reason for sinking extra cash into a PC and the gains there are very small. Anyway this is all I could find from an independent source (I'd expect the diffs to be even smaller on Dual Channel setups) ...

http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboar...507/index.html

PS. As for the Dual Matched thing, can you really see any company pairing together all kinds of different sticks and then thoroughly testing them for optimal perf / pairing? I unfortunately have to say they are far more likely to stick together 2 'identical' sticks so you should get exactly the same thing by simply buying 2 of the same sticks at the same time.

[Planetside]

ok so out the 2
(1)1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Dual Channel - GeIL Golden Dragon4.5ns CL2,6-3-3 1T £205 including vat and delivery
(2)1GB of TWINMOSS DDR pc3200 with twinmos chips for £126 including VAT + £10 delivery £136
which is the best to get.
I play games and do lots off stuff to do with dvds like converting XVID /DVIX and others to DVD and like i said its going to go with a ABIT NF7 V2 and a BARTON 2500 XP

[KAIN]

Ahh well see your example is on a P4 setup, where timings are not AS important. But Macci has shown they are important numerous times. On AMD latency and timing are king

Yeah that's the problem with buying two of the same sticks, company's use varying suppliers etc. of their chips and even PCB's these can all affect what timings are available from a certain stick. But I do not know the testing methods used for DDR so I could not tell you how they are tested.

[Austin]

Originally posted by Planetside
ok so out the 2
(1)1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Dual Channel - GeIL Golden Dragon4.5ns CL2,6-3-3 1T £205 including vat and delivery
(2)1GB of TWINMOSS DDR pc3200 with twinmos chips for £126 including VAT + £10 delivery £136
ABIT NF7 V2 and a BARTON 2500 XP

Easy for me, get the TwinMOS as the price the Geil demands is so not worth it ... who do they think they are Corsair? IIRC TwinMOS CL2.5 is actually CL2.5,6-3-3 so very close to Geil's CL2.0,6-3-3. Since you're after SktA, PC3200 is all you need, there's plenty of better things you could be spending that extra £70 on!

[Planetside]

OK im going to get the 1GB of TWINMOSS DDR pc3200 but if its no good ill send it back and get some othere ram.
What do i have to do if the TWINMOSS is crap and i wont to send it back any help on that would be good so i no im not stuck with it if its a shed

[Planetside]

all so what sort of marks you think ill get yousing this set up and a 9800 pro

[HEADRAT]

I would go for :-

1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Level2 Dual Channel - Mushkin With BH-5 chips Level II Hi Perf 2-2-2 !!

Fastest memory in terms of timings bar none..

HEADRAT

[Planetside]

yer but look @ the cost of that ram

[Planetside]

that ram is £280 1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Level2 Dual Channel - Mushkin

[HEADRAT]

Originally posted by Planetside
that ram is £280 1Gb kit DDR PC-3500 Level2 Dual Channel - Mushkin

It ain't cheap thats for sure, but in terms of timings its pretty sweet

HEADRAT

[Planetside]

yer but £280 is a hell of a lot just for timing

[Austin]

For £280 you can get Corsair which is reknowned by almost everyone as the best in RAM ... still no where near worth it though. I would expect that TwinMOS PC3200 to run faster than 400mhz probably around PC3500 and it should be able to handle very fast timing too, certainly if at 400mhz. I really can't see how the TwinMOS PC3200 will fail you though. Returning is easy, you can return it under the (UK) Distance Selling (within a certain timeframe) and all it costs you is return postage (they can't charge a restocking type fee). For the price you really can't fail!

[HEADRAT]

Originally posted by Austin
you can return it under the (UK) Distance Selling (within a certain timeframe) and all it costs you is return postage (they can't charge a restocking type fee). For the price you really can't fail!

Doesn't it have to be un-opened ?

HEADRAT

[Austin]

Don't think so, as long as it's in resalable condition ... ie. as good as new. Worth checking if you want to be sure of course.