jaquith
Glorious
[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]You're showing me a JEDEC DDR3-1600 CAS9? Here I thought we were talking about performance RAM.Since we're talking about two different things, there's a good chance that we're not actually in disagreement.As for the 1.28V thing, well, I actually left the JEDEC updates for low-voltage RAM out of this discussion of non-low-voltage RAM.[/citation]
Find posts of mine @ TH where I'm recommending >DDR3-1600 CAS 9 RAM; it'll be a long l-o-n-g search. Laser-focused on AMD FX CPU lines 9/10 times I'll recommend DDR3-1600 CAS 9 and in a few very rare cases where the OP 'might' get a tad extra performance (based on use/request - after I've lectured the $ per performance) then maybe DDR3-1866 i.e. native to their CPU.
To clarify, I had (2) separate ideas and statements:
1. Possible reasons the (2) kits failed
2. AMD 'optimized' RAM (like the picture above)
Real world, run RAM Disk and there you'll find some gains from the increased memory frequency relative to the CPU in question and it's rated 'Max Memory Bandwidth' per spec.
My observation, again, is the (2) sets that failed and the probable reasons for failure (i.e. compatibility). Mainly their Frequency to CAS isn't ideal for the AMD CPU that you tested -- that's it for this wild goose chasing argument.
And yep I like both DDR3L & DDR3U IF your CPU can run them!
In the 'Big Picture' I really don't care. AMD has always had a mediocre and sensitive IMC, and NEVER do I recommend DDR3-2400 to anyone -- I don't even care for those sets -- too much a PITA and too damn many BSOD's for my appetite regardless of Intel (SB, SB-E or IB) or for sure AMD FX. Yeah, I can get them to work but since I use RAM Disk I don't want the risk of e.g. outputting a couple hours of SQL 'garbage' or other failure. Gaming there are multitudes of benchmarks already out there.
Find posts of mine @ TH where I'm recommending >DDR3-1600 CAS 9 RAM; it'll be a long l-o-n-g search. Laser-focused on AMD FX CPU lines 9/10 times I'll recommend DDR3-1600 CAS 9 and in a few very rare cases where the OP 'might' get a tad extra performance (based on use/request - after I've lectured the $ per performance) then maybe DDR3-1866 i.e. native to their CPU.
To clarify, I had (2) separate ideas and statements:
1. Possible reasons the (2) kits failed
2. AMD 'optimized' RAM (like the picture above)
Real world, run RAM Disk and there you'll find some gains from the increased memory frequency relative to the CPU in question and it's rated 'Max Memory Bandwidth' per spec.
My observation, again, is the (2) sets that failed and the probable reasons for failure (i.e. compatibility). Mainly their Frequency to CAS isn't ideal for the AMD CPU that you tested -- that's it for this wild goose chasing argument.
And yep I like both DDR3L & DDR3U IF your CPU can run them!
In the 'Big Picture' I really don't care. AMD has always had a mediocre and sensitive IMC, and NEVER do I recommend DDR3-2400 to anyone -- I don't even care for those sets -- too much a PITA and too damn many BSOD's for my appetite regardless of Intel (SB, SB-E or IB) or for sure AMD FX. Yeah, I can get them to work but since I use RAM Disk I don't want the risk of e.g. outputting a couple hours of SQL 'garbage' or other failure. Gaming there are multitudes of benchmarks already out there.