Is PC4000 much better than PC3200?

[bluehorizon]

I have a MSI K7N2 Neo Plat board; the specs say it supports up to PC3200... Will I see any improvement if I get PC4000 over PC3200? If I get another board in the near future that supports above PC3200, will it be a noticable difference with 4000 instead of 3200?

Thanks 🙂

 

[Fuchs]

considering the price differences are little, unless you're getting ECC ram I would just go with the faster ram. I think you would notice a difference if you did some testing, but for game play i'm not sure it would be tooooo noticable.

 

[JBT]

Depends on the price. I have seen some decently cheap PC4000 around I got mine for $102 bucks and have my set up running with 242 HTT in sync. If you can find stuff that cheap PC3200 will be fine.

 

[3chordcharlie]

If you aren't OCing, you won't get any benefit from PC4000; higher latency may actually mean it performs worse at PC3200.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: JBT
Depends on the price. I have seen some decently cheap PC4000 around I got mine for $102 bucks and have my set up running with 242 HTT in sync. If you can find stuff that cheap PC3200 will be fine.

A tad off topic, but what do you mean by 242 HTT in sync? I know that the 242 is the fsb, but I don't get the in sync part.

 

[amdguy]

u can get the new crucial PC4000 Ballistix..it gives you both of good worlds:

Overclocking and the ability to run at PC3200 in 2.2.2.6 timings

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: JBT
Depends on the price. I have seen some decently cheap PC4000 around I got mine for $102 bucks and have my set up running with 242 HTT in sync. If you can find stuff that cheap PC3200 will be fine.

A tad off topic, but what do you mean by 242 HTT in sync? I know that the 242 is the fsb, but I don't get the in sync part.

I assume he means 1:1 fsb:memory