Today i got my pc parts in the mail; an e6400, a ga-965p-ds3, and OCZ 2GB PC2-6400 ram. The OCZ was a no-go; i kept getting BSOD all over the place, even after i loosened the timings and upped the VDIMM to 2.2V. So i tried the cheap 512MB stick of DDR2-533 i had laying around. I managed to get the cheap RAM running at 730MHz using 6-6-6-15 timings, single channel obviously. This translated to 2.93Ghz for the e6400, the same as the X6800. So I'm RMAing the OCZ and getting some Corsair, which i've heard works better.
Anyways, i looked at 8MB times for the X6800, and it was like 220s, versus 254 seconds for my overclocked e6400. non-overclocked times were also slower - like 336s for my e6400 versus 298s for a stock e6400. Obviously it isn't just the cache difference that's causing the difference.
My question is, can the smaller amount of RAM, single channel, and looser timings cause that big of a difference? I was under the impression that that kind of stuff only caused small performance drops in superpi. i'm really hoping there isn't anything else slowing my PC down, and that my times will be nice and fast when i get my Corsair.
Anyways, i looked at 8MB times for the X6800, and it was like 220s, versus 254 seconds for my overclocked e6400. non-overclocked times were also slower - like 336s for my e6400 versus 298s for a stock e6400. Obviously it isn't just the cache difference that's causing the difference.
My question is, can the smaller amount of RAM, single channel, and looser timings cause that big of a difference? I was under the impression that that kind of stuff only caused small performance drops in superpi. i'm really hoping there isn't anything else slowing my PC down, and that my times will be nice and fast when i get my Corsair.
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