Originally posted by: Wicked2010
Actually no... he says you can run PC3200 value ram at PC3000 at 2-2-2.... which
I severely doubt.
Can anyone vouch for his findings?
Anyone ever run value RAM a bit slower than PC3200 and be able to pull off 2-2-2 timings?
I challenge this finding.
It's impossible. I actually have a piece of memory that will not run 2-2-2, no matter what, it requires that the middle number be set to 3 on my KT400 board, for some reason, to operate at all. (No boot/post otherwise.)
In fact, I think I remember someone posting in a thread some time back, that they inquired to one of the major-brand memory companies, if you could often OC PC2700 to run at PC3200 at reduced timings, could you likewise underclock PC3200, to run at 2-2-2, and the answer was no, because those timings can depend on how the chips are designed, and some of them simply cannot do those timings, no matter what.
Now, if he's talking about a specific piece of memory from a specific mfg, sold into the "value ram" market category, then it's easily possible, since many times, the memory mfgs sell what they have, and you may be able to get top-end memory, without paying the top-end price, if you look carefully. Whatever chips that he may have tested, may indeed have been able to run at tighter timings at slower clocks. But that doesn't imply that it is possible with every single chip out there.