Which is the better OC?

[pctwo]

X2 3800+, 2x1gb corsair value ram, MSI K8NGM2 (nvidia 6150) mobo (not a OCer board)

I'm dual prime stable at either

cpu 2.25ghz, ram 200mhz ram 3-3-3-8
or
cpu 2.40ghz, ram 166mhz 2.5-3-3-7

both at stock volt.

Which is better? The most CPU intensive tasks I run are ffdshow (HD video playback) and a bit of gaming.

 

[the cobbler]

obviously 2.4ghz is better

but why are you running your RAM so slow?

 

[Mogadon]

I'd imagine because the RAM will cause instability with a 1:1 overclock hence he has to use the 166 divider, i'd imagine his RAM is actually running at around 200MHz with that divider.

 

[the cobbler]

Originally posted by: Mogadon
I'd imagine because the RAM will cause instability with a 1:1 overclock hence he has to use the 166 divider, i'd imagine his RAM is actually running at around 200MHz with that divider.

that's not what I mean

why not run 267x9=2403mhz with 166mhz divider= 220mhz RAM?!?

also you are correct, ~198mhz on the RAM, thought he meant speed, not which div

 

[SynthDude2001]

Definitely higher CPU speed no matter what. I think that higher RAM speeds aren't all that important at all...as long as you're around PC3200 speeds, you should be fine (and will benefit from the higher clock speed). Hell, even with my CPU doing intense video encoding on both cores, one time I was playing with different overclocks and noticed that I was getting noticeably faster speeds at 2.7-2.75GHz than 2.6GHz, even though my (effective) RAM speed had dropped from 216MHz to 180-190MHz. I still try to keep it as close to 200 as possible (it's not really stable over 220, I'm running value RAM, and 4x512 at that), but I'm not at all worried that I can't run 1:1...

 

[robertk2012]

2.4

 

[Mogadon]

Originally posted by: the cobbler
that's not what I mean

why not run 267x9=2403mhz with 166mhz divider= 220mhz RAM?!?

Good point.

 

[the cobbler]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Definitely higher CPU speed no matter what. I think that higher RAM speeds aren't all that important at all...as long as you're around PC3200 speeds, you should be fine (and will benefit from the higher clock speed). Hell, even with my CPU doing intense video encoding on both cores, one time I was playing with different overclocks and noticed that I was getting noticeably faster speeds at 2.7-2.75GHz than 2.6GHz, even though my (effective) RAM speed had dropped from 216MHz to 180-190MHz. I still try to keep it as close to 200 as possible (it's not really stable over 220, I'm running value RAM, and 4x512 at that), but I'm not at all worried that I can't run 1:1...

good post

not to mention that 2.5,3,3,7 1T @ 200mhz on 1GB value sticks is pretty good timing. Maybe can push them a few mhz higher and creep up on 2.5ghz.