CAS and Phenoms

[perdomot]

Been looking at some great deals on ram and have been wondering if going from CAS5-5-5-18 to 4-4-4-12 would make a noticeable difference in my system. Not OCing this rig.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: perdomot
Been looking at some great deals on ram and have been wondering if going from CAS5-5-5-18 to 4-4-4-12 would make a noticeable difference in my system. Not OCing this rig.

Absolutely not.

Have you even tried running 4-4-4 or maybe 5-4-4 with your exisiting RAM?

It may work. Keep Memtest86+ handy for checking stability, & be prepared to reset the CMOS when it doesn't POST.

If that doesn't sound like your idea of fun, you obviously don't want to OC, & we are pretty much back to the whole reason why bothering with 4-4-4 RAM = not worth it for you.

 

[TC91]

make sure to test with prime 95 blend too, i find that memory that can pass 50 passes or more of memtest can still crash in prime 95 blend.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: TC91
make sure to test with prime 95 blend too, i find that memory that can pass 50 passes or more of memtest can still crash in prime 95 blend.

Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

But I'd say HCI Memtest or IntelBurnTest aka LinPack would be better yet if you want to really stress things