Timings

[desertfox04]

I'm doing some research for a new computer and I've seen alot of references to timings.

To be blunt, I have no idea what these people are talking about.

Could some one clerify this for me?



P.S. I'm building an Athlon 64 system with vnf3-250 mobo. I was going to get OCZ 3700 EL but newegg seems to be out of the 512 sticks, my second choice is the kingston hyperx.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Timings make little difference to A64 gaming performance and if overclocking I'd concern myself more with ram that can run 1:1 at speeds of at least 250mhz as opposed to getting bent over buying LL in return for a 2% average performance difference it provides at the same speed.

 

[sisooktom]

Lots of info out there if you google on memory timings. But unless you want to overclock, I wouldn't worry about it. For all the talk about timings, in the end it seems there is very little performance difference between uber timings and average timings.

 

[Markfw]

Well, the OCZ PC4200 EL I put in my Athlon64 wouldn;t run over 200, and that was at 2.5-8-8-16 timing, so I wouldn't touch that stuff at all with an Athlon64. Now the Kingston Hyperx (which USED to be CAS 2) is now 2.5. I would go Mushkin Level1 PC3500.