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mzaidi
post Apr 3 2006, 03:58 AM

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QUOTE(shinjite @ Apr 3 2006, 12:43 AM)
High performance RAM timings are tight thus improves performance in games
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Not neccasarily true. Toms Hardware did a benchmark between loose and tight timings memory:

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Yes, there are slight improvement when using tight timings.

If I have to choose between large RAM size with loose timing vs small RAM size with tight timing, I'll choose larger RAM size.
mzaidi
post Apr 23 2006, 02:36 AM

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QUOTE(shadow_dweller @ Apr 23 2006, 12:06 AM)
nice finding. jz curious are all the ram running at the same speed? 
kinda proof what i believe all along right. better to hit higher ram speed than trying to get tighter timing.
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Yes, the ram is running at the same speed. Only different in timing.

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The tests were performed with a 290 MHz HTT base speed and a 2/3 memory speed divider, resulting in 193 MHz memory clock - this equals DDR386.


 

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