cas 2 or cas 2.5?

[biofobia]

How much better is cas 2 over 2.5... I had to up my voltage from 2.55 to 2.85 to get windows to boot... is it worth the extra voltage and heat generation?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

<< How much better is cas 2 over 2.5... I had to up my voltage from 2.55 to 2.85 to get windows to boot... is it worth the extra voltage and heat generation? >>



In a word, no

 

[John]

You might want to run Prime95 and see if it passes the torture test for 24 hrs.

 

[CurtOien]

I run SETI and for me, the improved times per work unit were well worth it.

 

[biofobia]

i ran sandra burn-in test for 20 times with amd athlon xp 1900+ at 1740 at an fsb of 145... with cas 2 at first... and well it was unstable and reboot... but for cas 2.5 at the same speed with a voltage of 2.55 it passed 20 times the cpu and mem burn in test... then an hour of 3dmark.. no unstability problems.. but with cas 2 i couldnt even finish sandra burn in test.... is cas 2 much faster than cas 2.5 will i notice a difference.. and like i said is the performance to life of mem to heat ratio better or worse?

 

[jcmkk]

Just set it at cas 2.5, you'll never notice the difference.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Unless you're running programs like SETI or anything else that's constantly compiling or anything then set it to 2.5. There's no big difference for everyday stuff that you'll noticably see.

 

[Prfstrkr]

YEAH i had a test about that before.

Mine CAS Latency was set to 2 at beginning, and it worked pretty stable(reboot roughly once 3 days), yet one day my WIN2k began to prompt DUMPING MEMORY, so it returned to 2.5 and I tried setting it back and it never worked any more...WELL according to sandra there's only 17 points difference (6674 v.s. 6657)....so I guess for ur system stability, just leave it.