Frank Weston

There's a real nice primer on memory on the Corsair website. It will answer
most of your questions in great detail.


"Thomas Andersson" <steiner@tifozi.net> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> Can someone please point me to some easy to understand info on memory
> timing, how it affects thinsg and how important it is?
> For example now I'm looking at two Kingston HyperX mem-sticks, they are
> timed:
>
> PC3200 CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) ($125)
> PC3200 CAS Latency 2 (2-3-2-6-1T) ($100)
>
> There's a $25 difference between these two sticks, will that single digit
> difference in memory timing make any detectable difference whatsoever at
> stock speed or slightly above?
> Alsom from the faster of these two there's just a $2 difference to this
one:
>
> PC3500 CAS Latency 2 (2-3-3-7-1T) ($127)
>
> For starters I'm gonna go with 400MHz FSB for the Barton XP2500+ I'm
> getting, but as I'm getting a water cooling rig I might be tempted to take
> it further, but how far would I need to go to make up for the worse timing
> of the higher speed ram?
> I realy want to try and understand these issues as they are of importance
in
> overclocking so any help would be apreciated!
>
> Best Wishes
> Thomas
>
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