Memory Timings

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What are they and how does it affect performance?And how do I find my timings?

[BipolarBill]

It's not worth the trouble unless you're in a competition with another nerd to squeeze every last bit of performance from a CPU.

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ok I didnt think that it would make a noticable gain in performance.

[bassman]

Wouldn't hurt to read this (http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/20020507/index.html) and this (http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/20020905/kt400-04.html) .

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thanks for those links.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

It's not worth the trouble unless you're in a competition with another nerd to squeeze every last bit of performance from a CPU.

LOL, yeah theonly reason i fiddle with my timings rather than using a preset is to take em backover to try and gain more o/c stability

--Jakk:t

[Beeblequix]

I'd kindly have to disagree with the "not worth the trouble arguement". The 'trouble' only amounts to about 30 seconds of actual work: 1) booting into BIOS, 2) lowering CAS, CAS to RAS, and RAS 3) saving changes 4) booting up as normal. For only ½ minute labor, is it not worth it? I make a case that it is.

regards,
ßeeßle Qµ!x

[i]Let your rig so forth shine, they they may see that it works, and glorify thy moderator which is in Sysopt.

[BipolarBill]

I did that once and the PC seized up tight. That's trouble. All for the nebulous benefit of a 5% increase in the memory bus speed, which is only part of the puzzle to begin with./

[AllGamer]

I agree with Bill, unless you are nerdy :p

it's not worth tweaking the RAM, to then end up with more trouble that you can handle

most people WILL forget it was due the RAM tweak

but things like program crashing, with weird error messages, or something freezing, and random reboots

are also caused just by switching from 2.5 to 2 or even maybe 2 commands to 1 command per clock.

or worse case scenario fiddling with the Voltage :x

so no, just trying to squeze that .05 % inclease in stupid scores vs Stability

definitely not worth it, unless you are 110% absolutely sure you know your stuff, and you know what you are actually teawking

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On a Side NOTE:

yes it takes only 15 seconds to set the timings

but it takes at least 5 hours to run the tests to guaranteed Stability after each changes
:D

[Beeblequix]

...unless you are 110% absolutely sure you know your stuff

I know my stuff. :)

And I'm a right sexy beast (Fat ******* Style) :x

Fat ßeeßle

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Thanks I probaly mess with them when I overclock my xp1800 tbred when I get a new heatsink cause I'm using a stock thing right now.