Which is faster?

[The Green Bean]

Winchester 3200+ @ 2.7GHZ and memory @ 180MHZ 2T

OR

Winchester @ 2.6GHZ and memory @ 216MHZ 2T?

 

[Furen]

Since the 2T command rate will give you a bandwidth hit to begin with, I'd say you'd be better off at 2.6GHz @ 216MHz.

 

[Matt2]

Shouldnt there be another divider in there somewhere? I'm running my A64 @ 2.7GHZ and RAM at 200mhz.

As for your question, I would definately say that you should run 2.6/216. OCing the RAM above 200mhz is going to be pretty useless unless you have tight timings as well, but if you go under 200mhz then your sysytem is gonna be starved off bandwidth.

My $0.02

 

[The Green Bean]

I have an epox and it doesnt have too many divider options. I can run it at 100, 133, 166, 200 : FSB only

 

[mindwreck]

Run some benchmarks.
I remember my sempron taking a hit when i had to increase the memory divider to lower mem clock and get a higher cpu overclock. Forgot where but i think it was around 2.3 or 2.4.

My memory was running under 200mhz and my prime95 benchmark times actually increased instead of decreasing from the extra cpu overclock.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

I would say the 2.7 GHz CPU option.

 

[Tweakin]

Since we are only talking about 100 Mhz for the cpu clock, I would go with the higher mem as long as the latencies were the same.