Cas 2 or Cas 3 Crucial Memory?

[Fox1966]

I am building a new system in the next couple of months, and am thinking about going ahead and getting 256 mb of crucial memory while it is at a good price. I plan on adding it to a system with an ASUS a7v133, and an Athlon 1.333 processor.

Sad to say, but I don't know what the difference is between cas 2 and cas 3 memory. What should I go with guys? And can someone explain the difference?

 

[Sugadaddy]

CAS latency is the number of cycles the memory controller waits before sending more data. So the lower the better. I'd go for CAS 2 ram since the price difference is minimal. In real life, it translates to ~5% performance increase.

 

[BChico]

Even though it looks like nothing of a difference on paper, i actually notice a difference between 2 and 3, its only like 5-10 dollars difference anyway, just get CAS 2...

 

[ZeroBurn]

definitely get cas2, the price difference is so minimal you might as well save your super-sizes at McD's for a week and splurge on it. i doubt you'll see much performance difference, but higher quality memory would be a must i'd say especially for you and your heavily decked out system 🙂