Corsair PC 3200 or PC 3500?

me@here.com wrote:
> Is there any benefit of using PC 3500 other than overclocking? I am
> using two sticks of Corsair TwinX 512 meg now but have two sticks of
> Corsair XMS PC 3500 512 meg too. The PC 3500 has black heat spreaders
> and I don't know if that means the ram is different than the platinum
> model.
>
> Also, the A7N8X deluxe recognzes the PC 3200 timings but not PC 3500.
> Is this normal?
>
> Which of these memoroes should I stick with? Thanks.

With the PC3500 (Assuming that the 3500 and the PC3200 are both LL versions)
you should be able to get slightly more aggressive timings.

Ben
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Chi wrote:
> The new corsairs has platinum heatspreaders it is just an marketing
> ploy and basically underneath the same as the ram with the black
> heatspreaders.

Yep.

> the 3200ll is a bascially a 3500 ram but renamed to 3200ll as it can
> run at aggressive timimgs at 200fsb, and the 3500 will do a better
> job in reaching a high fsb.

Indeed, which is why I said both should be LL versions. However, there
appears not to be a 3500LL.

Ben
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but there are the new corsair 3700LL


"Ben Pope" <spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bdgs3g$hqn$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk...
> Chi wrote:
> > The new corsairs has platinum heatspreaders it is just an marketing
> > ploy and basically underneath the same as the ram with the black
> > heatspreaders.
>
> Yep.
>
> > the 3200ll is a bascially a 3500 ram but renamed to 3200ll as it can
> > run at aggressive timimgs at 200fsb, and the 3500 will do a better
> > job in reaching a high fsb.
>
> Indeed, which is why I said both should be LL versions. However, there
> appears not to be a 3500LL.
>
> Ben
> --
> I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string...
>
>

<<From: "Chi" chiyau@ntlworld.com
Date: 6/27/2003 5:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <5gUKa.2810$QA2.339061@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net>

but there are the new corsair 3700LL >>>

Dont know where you get your info but the 3700 sims are auctually high latency
modules cas 3.0....

In article <bdgs3g$hqn$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Ben Pope
<spam@hotmail.com> writes
>Chi wrote:
>> The new corsairs has platinum heatspreaders it is just an marketing
>> ploy and basically underneath the same as the ram with the black
>> heatspreaders.
>
>Yep.

They've gone back to black now I think. I've had three lots of Corsair
XMS, the first were black, the second silver and the third black again.
--
Toby

Toby Groves wrote:
> In article <bdgs3g$hqn$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Ben Pope
> <spam@hotmail.com> writes
>> Chi wrote:
>>> The new corsairs has platinum heatspreaders it is just an marketing
>>> ploy and basically underneath the same as the ram with the black
>>> heatspreaders.
>>
>> Yep.
>
> They've gone back to black now I think. I've had three lots of
> Corsair XMS, the first were black, the second silver and the third
> black again.

They still do both as far as I can tell.

Ben
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