Using DDR 333 ram WHICH one is faster 3.0C or 3.06B

[Daemos]

Okay so I will be doing a mild upgrade this christmas no later than new years. I JUST want to upgrade the CPU and MOBO NOTHING ELSE. My old Cpu/Mobo is going into a case with everything else as a computer to give to my parents as a christmas gift...so this HAS to be done before newyears 🙂

okay on a Abit IC7 board, USING DDR 333 (NOT 400) which one would be faster. a P4 3.0C or a P4 3.06B. Which one would also have better overclockabilty and overall performance when overclocked USING DDR 333 ram. I don't wish to buy new ram...but people don't seem to understand that I DON'T want to and WON'T buy new RAM, since my DDR 333 is still good, and I'm ON a budget I'll also have a SLK-900U heatsink and a smartfan 2.

Why won't I buy PC3500 ram to o/c because that would cost me a good 300 dollars more atleast for 1 GB, and with that I would rather get an athlon 64 3200+ combo.

So which one? I won't EVER upgrade the machine again, so there is a 0% chance the machine will EVER see DDR 400 ram, the most it WILL see is Harddrive upgrades. If I ever do plan to upgrade anything else, the machine will probally be useless to me by then and I would of built a new box and this one will be a good large paperweight 😛

So which one is faster, and using DDR 333 ram which one will have a better chance of overclocking. I'm thinking the 3.06 B because I still have a 33mhz overhead for the FSB vs my ram speed.

 

[nick1985]

3.0C is much better than the 3.06

 

[Shimmishim]

the 3.0C is better... BUT...

if you want to keep your ram and what not, i'd say go with the 3.06B

the 3.06B takes advantage of a 23x multiplier and 133 mhz fsb

since you have ddr333, you can take the fsb up to 166 and use 1:1 ratio, game accelerator and all that other goody stuff on the ic7.

with the 3.0C, you have an 15x mult and 200 mhz fsb

right off the bat, you'll have to use a divider to maintain that 200 mhz (unless your ram can run 200 mhz)

not that divider performance is that bad... but i guess that's just a personal preference thing...

i think either one will suit you fine... but put in mind one is 23 x 133 and the other is 15 x 200

 

[1966]

3 ghz 800 fsb is the better option,I run 1gig of DDR333 with a 2.4c at 250fsb with my ram at 166mhz (3:2) and my mem benches just as fast as if I were using pc3200 with a fsb of 200.

CPU FSB is more important that raw mem speed.

I was going to upgrade to pc3200 but when i started benching my pc2700 & found it very aceptable with a cpu fsb of 250 mhz I decide that it wasnt worth the cost of getting new ram & kept my pc2700. 🙂

 

[Daemos]

Yea I don't think my ram would beable to take any overclocking past 166 mhz...and since I'd have to use a ram divider...so what kind of performance losses would I experience from using a divider?

get the 3.0C chip, use a ram divider of 3:2 run the ram at 166fsb and the FSB of the CPU at 250...is that even safe? that'd be pushing my 3.0C to 3750 mhz ON AIR COOLING...I mean I don't want to doubt you...but I want this thing to run 24/7 (almost) and last 2-3 years (well 1.5-2 years I'll upgrade...but I'll probally use this as a spare box) what other dividers do they have? because I'd think I'd want to customize it...heh...

what kind of advantages/disadvantages would I have by using the ramdivider at 3:2 instead of 1:1 with the 3.06B

 

[Nebor]

Guess T3d wasn't good enough for you then.

 

[1966]

Originally posted by: Daemos
Yea I don't think my ram would beable to take any overclocking past 166 mhz...and since I'd have to use a ram divider...so what kind of performance losses would I experience from using a divider?

get the 3.0C chip, use a ram divider of 3:2 run the ram at 166fsb and the FSB of the CPU at 250...is that even safe? that'd be pushing my 3.0C to 3750 mhz ON AIR COOLING...I mean I don't want to doubt you...but I want this thing to run 24/7 (almost) and last 2-3 years (well 1.5-2 years I'll upgrade...but I'll probally use this as a spare box) what other dividers do they have? because I'd think I'd want to customize it...heh...

what kind of advantages/disadvantages would I have by using the ramdivider at 3:2 instead of 1:1 with the 3.06B

You didnt read my post properly,I have a 2.4C not a 3.0c that's why I ran my cpu at 250mhz fsb.

If you were to get a 3.0c and run it stock at 200mhz then you would use the 5:4 devider to run your ram at 166mhz.

Or course there will be a slight performance loss,but it 2-5% worth the cost replacing your pc2700 with pc3200?

personaly it was too expensive for such little gains for me so I kept my pc2700 ram.

 

[Daemos]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Guess T3d wasn't good enough for you then.

😛 trying to get diffrent opinions from all sorts of diffrent places.