by Speed of flight » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:01 pm
The "sweet spot" theory is true. After a certain point, it isn't reliable anymore. If you adjust the latencies a little higher to get more speed, it really defeats the pourpose. It runs at 1000+ MHz, true, but if it waits 5 clock cycles rather than 4 to charge and strobe, the MHz seems to not matter anymore. With RAM, I use the lowest latencies possible, then try to push the MHz a little. I'm no tech MASTER, but I have noticed this to be true. Once you're at 4-4-4-12, that's about as rapid as ddr2 can strobe, charge, whatever. There is an inverse correlation to latency and speed. That's all I know about it. If you can get a higher score on a benchmarking tool, ok, but what we really want is for it to run programs and games faster. 4-4-4-12 is as tight as it gets.
Keep pushin! Hope this helps... 8-)
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