Given a choice, what would you pick?

[K404]

Tonight, to settle a "what would win" question i've been asking myself, i'm going to be benching SPi 32M at 400x9, with the following RAM setups:

1:1- 400MHz 3-3-3

4:5- 500MHz 4-4-4

2:3- 600MHz 5-5-5

Which one do you guys think will give me the best time?

straps will be the same for all, subtimings will be too I reckon. I wont be playing any fancy tricks.

K

 

[Vrykyl]

hmmm....option 2 methinks....?

can I pick option 4, 600fsb at 4-4-4 ? give it 2.5v

 

[K404]

LOL theres other options, that might well work out better e.g. 450x8 with 450Mhz or 562MHz RAM or, yea- 600MHz 4-4-4...humour me!

Another question (which I wont answer tonight) is:

say 556x9 RAM options are: 556MHz @ 4-4-3 or 667MHz @ 5-5-4...which will give the better result?

Enough of that for now though...back to the original post!

 

[Hatman]

Option 3, speed over latency.

 

[FragTek]

Option 2 or 3.... I think 3 is going to give you a slight advantage, I don't think the slacked timings can make up for the 100mhz increase.

 

[Uncle_Fluffy]

I'd go for opyion 3 cos DDR3 is already showing it can just about match or beat DDR2 purely on speed despite much higher latencies!