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Is Mushkin PC2700 CAS 2:2:2 worth the extra $50 for 512MB?

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Dont waste your money dude, you can get Crosair DDR 3200 that dose cas 2-2-2 1T at 166 and in most cases 180mhz and up at those timings. 183 bucks with 5 cent shipping, cant really beat that.
 
Ah yes the old $0.5 deal, something tells me I shouldn't have turned down that extra math class senior year 😛😉.
 
Dont waste your money dude, you can get Crosair DDR 3200 that dose cas 2-2-2 1T at 166 and in most cases 180mhz and up at those timings.
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Mushkin's HiPerf Level 2 PC2100 does 183MHz FSB (DDR366) at CAS 2-2-2 (or the fastest settings you motherboard can handle) at default voltage. I'd like to see what their HiPerf Level 2 PC2700 can do! :Q 🙂
 
Umm. Doesn't Corsair's PC3200c2 do 400mhz cas 2 gauranteed? For $186 from Googlegear.
 
Mushkin memory is overrated. Get some Crucial RAM instead, and save yourself some money.
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Whatever dude! Crucial ain't gonna come anywhere close to Mushkin's HiPerf Level 2 memory. Crucial is great memory, but for overclocking Mushkin is much better.
 
Originally posted by: Dug
Umm. Doesn't Corsair's PC3200c2 do 400mhz cas 2 gauranteed? For $186 from Googlegear.
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Yes, and newegg has it for 3.00 more. 😉
 
Ummm DDR400 isn't supported officially...I'd hesitate to run it in any board unless you know what your doing. Actually maybe I'm getting confused here...damn overclockers (JK) they are always saying get PC3200, blah blah, but do you really NEED it? I mean if your not going to overclock, what is wrong with PC2700 at CAS 2? Corsair makes a 512 MB stick of CAS 2 PC2700 for a bit cheaper than the PC3200, although not significantly cheaper. Now, would there be ANY harm in running PC3200 in a board that doesn't support it? Could you say, run it at DDR333 speeds, and IT (the PC3200) in all intents and purposes BE (PC2700)? Then when a bios upgrade comes along that will support DDR400 you could then run it in official DDR400 speed?
 
Yo BLiT45!
That's about exactly what I'm planning.

Looks like I'd be ordering the new Asus P4S8X (SIS648), a P4 2.53, and perhaps the Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR400 @ 2-3-3-6-T1.

The P4S8X only supports PC1600, PC2100, and PC2700 (officially). But I'm hoping that Asus does exactly what you say, and validates PC3200 in the future. Voila!

Again, overclocking is not an issue here.

Is this Corsair memory good stuff!! Recommend it anyone?

 
did you guys see the KINGSTON PC2700 512mb at google gear for only $130 + 5 cent shipping

I was trying to purchase it but I think there site is fubared by src virus.

anyway looks like a good deal
 
Ummm DDR400 isn't supported officially...
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No kidding. Neither is o/c ing, water cooling, voltage adjustments, memory dividers, or anything else that changes speed.

But P4's rely on memory bandwidth. I can't imagine buying a 2.53Ghz CPU and run it at stock speed. You don't know what your missing if you don't at least push the memory on that, never mind o/c ing the cpu. I know people that say oh i won't o/c it. But when they see everybody else running at 3Ghz guess what, they o/c.
 
So it's kinda better to buy 3200 ram, even for a 2100/2700 board..since you can just "underclock it" to 2700 speeds if you want..and you KNOW it can run higher than 2700 ram.

right?
 
Originally posted by: vm
So it's kinda better to buy 3200 ram, even for a 2100/2700 board..since you can just "underclock it" to 2700 speeds if you want..and you KNOW it can run higher than 2700 ram.

right?
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That is correct.

 
I have to be conservative...

I build PC's for other people, so I never overclock them. (the smallest problems can cost huge $$ amounts in support time and material). There are warranty issues, etc...

I have overclocked my own machines, but also to a limited extent (I'm just not knowledgeable enough on the subject - Melting a CPU is very expensive).

You guys in the forum really help out a lot, and if something is working out for everyone, I might give it a try. I can experiment on my own machines.


Is Kingston RAM as good? At stock speed that is?




 
So you can run a PC3200 chip in MB that would run unstably with it normally, by "underclocking", it to say, PC2700, and it would be stable, all the time everytime?

Would this be a true statement where the SiS 648 boards are concerned?

How would you do this...select DDR333 mode in BIOS?

R2D2, BTW I'm pretty sure about one thing, I imagine a future BIOS update would support PC3200...(I'm not a big OC'er myself either BTW), although, from what I hear the SiS board isn't a great one for OC'ing...it sure has some nice features though. Wonder if a BIOS upgrade would make it more overclockable in the future?
 
Originally posted by: AnMig
did you guys see the KINGSTON PC2700 512mb at google gear for only $130 + 5 cent shipping

I was trying to purchase it but I think there site is fubared by src virus.

anyway looks like a good deal
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Kingston is crap when it comes to cas settings, stay far far away from that stuff.
 
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