Memory CAS Latency 3-4-4-8 ???

[carabala16]

Hi, im new on this hardware world.. what does this numbers mean???

[kenc51]

Geez.....good question!

It's the timings of your ram....It's how quick the ram responds to any requests......Basically the lower the better

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21249

Scroll half way down the page --> It explains some recommended settings (applies to DFI boards but same thing!)

My brain isn't in the right condition to try explain this sorry.....(long day here in work)

[carabala16]

mmmmm, im to newbie to understand all what they say on that post (link), but thanks anyway, ive got the basic point, the lower the better (the lower ones are the expensivest LOL).

[FZ1]

Yep, that's the way it goes. the higher you run your RAM the higher your latencies/timings need to be to support those speeds. There is a breakpoint however where the lower timings hurt more than larger band width helps. Unfortunately, the only way to determine this point is by trial and error and a lot of benchmarking.

[carabala16]

And what about non-unbufered and ECC?

[kenc51]

Unbuffered ram is the standard ram that's in your pc....
ECC & or registered ram is for servers and mission critical stuff...

ecc ram is more expensive and slower than unbuffered ram.....
Most good motherboards support it.......but stay away from it.....