Advantage of higher fsb..325 vs 289?

[nealh]

I have an opteron 165 that does 12hrs 50min Prime 95 stable when I stopped this am..as I still trying to get max overclock

but looks like 2610 is pretty close to it

so is there an advantage worth running mobo at 326 vs 290 fsb....
I have a DFI SLI DR so I maybe able to get 325 fsb....is it worth it

where would i see the benefit?

thanks

 

[RichUK]

Not with regards to plain HTT speed, with regards to 1:1 memory speed then there would be a very slight increase (but negligible once again). i assume you are enquiring into whether 8 x 326, or 9 x 290, would be better? Then no, no noticeable improvements would you see.

 

[nealh]

yes..thanks..I will just stick to 290 x 9

 

[RussianSensation]

Here are benches. 1:1 (200/200), 3:2 (300/200) and 1:1 (300/300)
Decide for yourself:

Benches

Their system is comparable to yours:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU (Socket 939, 2.4GHz, 512KB L2, Venice);
DFI NF4 Ultra-D mainboard (Socket 939, NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
PowerColor RADEON X850 XT (PCI-E x16) graphics card;
Maxtor MaXLine III 250GB (SATA150) HDD;
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 OS.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Here are benches. 1:1 (200/200), 3:2 (300/200) and 1:1 (300/300)
Decide for yourself:

Benches

Their system is comparable to yours:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU (Socket 939, 2.4GHz, 512KB L2, Venice);
DFI NF4 Ultra-D mainboard (Socket 939, NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra);
PowerColor RADEON X850 XT (PCI-E x16) graphics card;
Maxtor MaXLine III 250GB (SATA150) HDD;
Microsoft Windows XP SP2 OS.

He?s talking about HTT speed alone, not memory speed combined!

Also synthetic benchies does NOT equate to real world performance as im sure you are aware, and further to that AMD is not bandwidth starved therefore an increase in bandwidth does very little to help. Hence the popularity with using memory dividers, and lower latency RAM.