Tight Memory Timings or High FSB?

[Jay T]

yo ppl, just a quick question for Holst, ET or anyone else with knowhow. I can do 235 MHz FSB with slack timings (7,3,3,2.5) or 220-225 with tight timings (5,2,2,2.0).

Which would you use?

[orby]

have you benched them both at those speeds

and tried some real time gamming with fps showing ?


as normaly more fsb is faster with tight timmings and less mhz

try dropping the multi down one and see if that gives tighter timmings

if not go with the real time performance gain ofthe two

[flytek]

233 is a round number in terms of your pci/agp bus. i'm waiting for memory that does 233x2 reliably before i jump from 200 to 233fsb. if i was you i'd make that jump even if i had to run single channel sync in order to do it.

[thewoZa]

Originally posted by flytek
233 is a round number in terms of your pci/agp bus. i'm waiting for memory that does 233x2 reliably before i jump from 200 to 233fsb. if i was you i'd make that jump even if i had to run single channel sync in order to do it.

The pci bus is locked @ 33mhz and AGP bus is changable in the bios so this can be locked @ 66Mhz on the 8rda+ so this isn't an issue anymore. Runniing memory in sync is MUCH better than not.

As for which is quicker, fsb or tight timings, I found in my setup that they are about the same so run some benches and see for yourself.