who uses a 1:1 ram ratio?

[V3NOM]

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[zipz0p]

Thanks a lot CompuTronix! That post really helped solidify a few things that were nagging in the back of my head from a few Anandtech articles that I didn't quite get 100%.

 

[Lupiron]

Yee haw! My F-ing P5N72-T @ 3738 just bombed at 8 hours and 3 mins! Waaaahhh, woulda gotten my 0ver 8 hours screen shot, but I wanted more like 9!

That's what I get for being greedy!

Just thought I would liven up this wonderful thread!

--Lupi

 

[zipz0p]

Yeah, playing with various settings I ran a memory stability test and had it fail at 7.5 hours last night some time. Not a happy sight in the morning.

 

[roark3]

CompuTronix, riddle me this: I just bought a Q9550 CPU to run on a Striker II Formula using 8G (2G x 4 sticks) of DDR2 800 ram running Vista 64 for gaming. I want performance but I don't want to overclock, or if I do at least not by much, because I don't want to worry about temperature or anything like that.

Am I better off dialing back the ram to get to the 1:1 ratio or leaving everything stock in which case the ram is outpacing the CPU but there is a need, as you say, "to translate the data flow across the FSB between the memory modules and the processor(s)."

Of course, I could dial up the CPU to get to the 1:1 ratio if you PROMISE I won't fry anything! Just kidding and thanks for your wisdom.

Signed,

Custom-build Newbie

 

[CompuTronix]

At default stock settings, the ratio is 2:3 (266:400 or DDR 800) which can marginally overcome the latency introduced in translation across the FSB between memory and processor clocks, resulting in a marginal increase in memory performance, that typically yields an increase in memory benchmarks of 2 to 3%, as I wrote above.

If you don't want to overclock, then leave the memory at stock.

Comp