What is Faster

[Relion]

For my Core 2 Duo:

8 * 333 ?
or
10 * 266 ?

What's faster ? What's better (voltage/longevity wise) ?

 

[n7]

You have the E6400 in your sig?

That only has an 8x multi

Anyway, which one is faster depends on a number of things.
-northbridge core clock speeds/latencies...on P5Bs at least, i know that up to 400 MHz, performance gets better (with higher FSB). Might be similar on the MSI you have; not sure.
-RAM speed. Depending on which dividers you choose to use, you could have various choices.
-FSB being higher is usually better, but again, that depends somewhat on what the RAM is running at.

I'd suggest trying both out & benching to see which wins...

 

[Relion]

I found this on the sticky:

What is a better overclock?

Good question. I think that common thought is a higher bus rate and lower multiplier. Or is a low bus rate and higher multiplier better? For example, 9x333=3.0 GHz and 8x375=3.0 GHz.

I did a lot of testing on this one and concluded that there is no difference for real world applications. If you use a synthetic benchmark, like Sandra, you will see faster memory reads/writes, etc. with the higher FSB. This is great if all you do with your machine is run synthetic benchmarks. But the higher FSB comes at the cost of higher voltages for the board which equate to higher temps.

Thank you

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

If you can keep your RAM @ 1:1 the higher FSB will be much better. I think there is little difference in voltage/longevity. Obviously if you notice less voltage for vDIMM or vCORE being needed in one of the two situations- you have your answer. I would tend to bet the higher fsb is best- I would think it'll mask latency of requests.... could just be hot air...

 

[j0j081]

what is faster? a bird or a plane?

 

[VirtualLarry]

More like: what's faster, two jet turbines, or four propellers?