What would speed up a computer more? *POLL*

[neonerd]

Well, maybe I'm doing something wrong, I think I'm not doing something correctly with the voltage. But I've got an unlocked athlon XP 2800+...I was running it at a 3200+ speed, but with the default memory timings. I tried adjusting the timings to 2 and the system wouldn't boot up...that's fine. So i tried keeping it at 2800+, and adjusting the memory timings, and that worked. Now my question is what would make it faster? Faster CPU or faster memory timings?

Or perhaps what would I have to do to get both benefits? Adjust the voltage to make it higher? Currently set at 2.6 for the memory and 1.65 for the CPU

EDIT: It's an Athlon XP...not 64

shoulda clarified that first

 

[neonerd]

is there a reason most people vote cpu speed? also how would i get the benefit of the both?

 

[nick1985]

memory timings mean jack squat on the athlon 64.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: nick1985
memory timings mean jack squat on the athlon 64.

it's an athlon xp

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: nick1985
memory timings mean jack squat on the athlon 64.

it's an athlon xp

Therefore, you could likely upgrade to an A64 & still use your current RAM & still get far better perfomance

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: neonerd

Originally posted by: nick1985
memory timings mean jack squat on the athlon 64.

it's an athlon xp

Therefore, you could likely upgrade to an A64 & still use your current RAM & still get far better perfomance

lol, true. however i don't want to dish out the money just yet...i want to get the most out of this sytem

 

[FishTankX]

Nick's response makes me think that people around here don't read as slowly as one would do so in say, a class.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: FishTankX
Nick's response makes me think that people around here don't read as slowly as one would do so in say, a class.

i could have sworm it said athlon 64...maybe he edited it, or maybe i was seeing things.

 

[magomago]

In general, memory timings don't make much of a real world difference these days. In synthetic benchmarks and things like 3dmark you probably will see a difference...but in real world applications and many games it is probably negligble...

so in your circumstance i would probably go faster CPU over tighter CPU timings.

Though ironically enough even if that case has held for me in almost all my friend's pc...for some reason on mine if the ram timings are anything less than 2-2-2-6 windows has noticable lag to where things are not instantaneous~~~clickingin on "start" would yield in quite a bit of lag before it appears...and it magically goes away with lower timings... but this has only happened with me and is probably due to my setup and or mix of ram (i remember when i got my a7n8x there were problems with 512 meg dimms and the mobo...maybe there was some undocumented erorr with 256 dimms at specific timings? Who knows)

But in general for the XPs they aren't as memory bandwith dependent as the P4s are (and the Athlon64 seems also...dropping down to pc2700 ram vs pc3200 only brings about a 5% decrease in preformance at most)