Ram timings? I'm confused...

[lung]

I've been playing around with my system, trying to squeeze whatever performance I can out of it and right now I'm tweaking the ram. I'm at a bit of a loss as far as the timings go, specifically the delay. I'm running a gig of Shikatronics PC4000 at 2-2-2-5. This is with a P4 3.0 (at stock right now, OC'ing to come later) on an Asus P4P800S. Now for the confusion. I've always thought that lower was better. Then I hunt around a bit and see people getting totally hyped that they got their ram to run at something like 2-2-2-10. If I'm thinking correctly that would seem to be pretty lacking due to the high delay setting.

Can anyone shed some light on the subject? I've tried googling, but most discussions on ram timings only cover the first three settings.

 

[Fern]

On the nForce2 mobo, peeps generally get better scores with the delay set to 10 or 11. I think it's unique to AMD setups.

Fern

 

[lung]

So are you meaning then, that for a P4 system, I should be going for as low as possible while remaining stable?

 

[Skoop]

Does the term "benchmarking" mean anything to you?

Google is your friend.

 

[lung]

Originally posted by: Skoop
Does the term "benchmarking" mean anything to you?

Google is your friend.

1. I see reading comprehension is pretty low on your priorties for accomplishments to achieve in life.

2. I'm at work so benchmarking would be prety difficult at the moment.

3. Why should I spend tons of time benchmarking various settings when I could ask a simple question on a board and get pointed in the right direction right away?

4. I'm sure that you think you're exceptionally witty for a 12 year-old, but in all reality, you're just annoying. Go play in traffic.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

You are correct, the lower the timings the better. What you are seeing in the forums is people who are overclocking. As you run the FSB up durring overclocking, you have to loosen up the timmings, normally from 2-2-2-5 to something like 2.5-3-3-10. So if some guy is overclocking his FSB to 250 and he can keep his timmings @ 2-3-3-10 thats worth a WooT!!

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: lung
So are you meaning then, that for a P4 system, I should be going for as low as possible while remaining stable?

I don't play with Intel these days, so can't really say what would work best. If you've got Sisoft Sandra( a free benchie) or Motherboard Monitor 5, you could change the seetings and see.

(MBM5 shows your ram bandwithd in the upper left hand corner when it's running)

Oh, winrar might be good for checking which is better too.

 

[lung]

Thanks for the replies guys. I got down to benchmarking last night and so far I'm running a 230fsb and the ram is at 2.5-3-3-5. Quite happy with it so far. My sticking point is my P4 3.0E though. It craps out at 235fsb.. I guess I'll try upping the vcore...