Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
These are 5-5-5-15 timings, I checked.
That is fairly good right, like Cas 2.5 used to be?
Yes, for 2GB capacity DDR-2 sticks it's quite respectable.
It's not common to find anything much faster in 2GB capacity
at DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) speed without paying a significant price premium.
If the fastest possible memory is your highest priority there's DDR2-1066 or higher
MHz rating out there, as well as probably a few rare sticks that'll do
DDR2-800 at 4-4-4-whatever, but it's uncommon and more expensive for little
practical benefit in most cases.
For a new Penryn/Wolfdale there might be some benefit in faster MHz
than DDR2-800 i.e. 1066 or faster or DDR3, if you REALLY want to get the
CPU up to 4GHz or more but otherwise these are the
perfect price and performance.
For all other CPUs, any further improvement in memory MHz or Timings beyond
5-5-5-15 @ 800 MHz dual channel doesn't have much impact at all on overall system speed.
At these prices for this performance it's very tempting to stock up and get
8GBy installed RAM for your systems running any kind of 64-bit OS if you're
doing any kind of RAM hungry task like heavy photoshop / video editing / etc.
I don't suspect we'll be seeing DDR3 this cheap anytime soon and DDR2 at
these speeds and capacities is just fine for the next couple of years of PCs.
For more demanding applications I wish there were motherboards that could
take 16GBy DDR2 unbuffered DIMMs like these, though, I've already maxed
out 2 Q6600's @ 8GB and am thinking of a couple more lacking motherboards
that'll do 16GB, 32GB, 64GB with this sort of cheap unbuffered memory.
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