Upcoming Low Latency Round-Up

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:44 am

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are almost done testing our Low Latency memory for our 4-Way DDR1 Low Latency 2-2-2-5 round-up. The 4 brands we will be looking at are Corsair, Kingston, OCZ, and PQI. Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see changed in the memory reviews or any thoughts.

drexor69 · Post by **drexor69** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:01 am

Nate,

Man, that's a lot of memory. Assuming those are all 512MB DDR1 (I know they aren't) modules there that's a bunch of RAM.

Hope you've got your gun handy. =P

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:24 am

yup,

Just waiting on Mushkin to send in their new Low Latency memory then the round-up will go on. They overnight mailed it so it should be here today.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:32 am

Go Mushkin Go................

My ram of choice if you couldn't tell.........................

drexor69 · Post by **drexor69** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:22 am

You edited me! =P

Xerxes · Post by **Xerxes** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:56 am

sweet soon my curiosity will be answered youre testing all the brands ive been considering and ocz also.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:33 pm

cool, look forward to it!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:57 pm

GRRRR

I've spent the past 2 days benchmarking on 2 939 platforms and I'm figured out one thing... Overclocking seems to be limited by the memory controller on the CPU. For example all 6 modules max at out 218MHz FSB at 2-2-2-5 on the 3800+. On both the ASUS and MSI K8T800 Pro boards. I've tried several BIOS's released and Beta, different video cards, and now even different CPU's. I was trying to show AMD/Intel results to help everyone out, but the AMD results don't show anything as the CPU seems to be the bottleneck.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:11 pm

well this is a prime example of when onboard mem controllers have disadvantages....

Could it possible be due to the controller being made for a certain speed and hence any faster speeds kinda cause it to get too much information and kinda it cant process it all.....

If the above seemed like absolute crap its ok, im half asleep....

Xerxes · Post by **Xerxes** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:40 pm

have you tried them an a nf3 250 board yet? anand seems to get amazing results with tccd and nf3 250 boards both 754 and 939pin, then again maybe they handpicked all of their test bed cpus

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:13 pm

confucius say: anand results look more like dollars than MHz.

Xerxes · Post by **Xerxes** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:20 pm

hehe yes i know, thats why i was wondering if apop has had a chance to use a nf3 250 board so we can all see real results :D

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:56 pm

Try a lower end A64 939............bet they go higher than 218 MHz. I just have a feeling it's just something AMD does to keep the highend CPUs from going to fast. I would have any idea on how they could do such a thing, but you never know. I've read several reviews where the A64 3500 made 250 FSB.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:35 pm

or try an FX and see if having the cream of the crop makes any differnece.

drexor69 · Post by **drexor69** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:37 am

http://www.crucial.com/ballistix/store/ ... BL6464Z402

Are you going to get some new Ballistix modules in to reflect the change they've made in their spec?

Apparently they can't screen enough IC's to maintain a 2-2-2 spec and have dropped it to 2-3-2...

aDDiCT · Post by **aDDiCT** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:09 pm

ive got this pqi turbo at 260mhz 2.5-3-3-5 @2.7v(can do it stock) easy in a 1:1 ratio with my athlon xp 3000+