Which Ram to get to 166 fastest settings?

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The title almost says it all. I want fastest memory timmings at 166 I know that is somewhat week compaired to what you other guys demand from your Ram but anyway. I might go up 172 fastest settings. Will almost any good ram do this? Oh yes I'm also on somewhat of a budget.

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Corsair XMS2700 or Samsung PC2700 should work fine.

 

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Would I be able to do it with Crucial 2700 it's looking like that would be the cheapest route and if it follows the crucial tradition it is decent.

 

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Corsair XMS2700 or Samsung PC2700 should work fine.

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Ditto. I prefer Samsung though. Just make sure it is original PC2700. Can you wait? PC3200 is about to come out from Samsung.

 

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Id prefer Mushkin 3000 or Corsair 3000, not Corsair XMS 2700 because it uses 7.5 ns chips, but if money is an issue, Crucial might cut it. Their PC 2100 was great, which suggests their 2700 would, but I dont have specific results to back up these abstract theories of mine

 

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Ditto. I prefer Samsung though. Just make sure it is original PC2700. Can you wait? PC3200 is about to come out from Samsung.

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the pc3200 sammy is going to be expensive, and more than he needs.

a good stick of 2700 CTL will do nicely. course waiting for the pc3200 to come out might make the 2700 cheaper.

 

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I actually wanted to get Samsung CLT but now that Newegg sells DLT I don't know where to get it. If you know please share I guess it can wait but now that I'm up 166fsb this crucial is slowest settings and I have 2.75v going through it kind of scares me.

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Just saw that Newegg has split up their stockpile of Samsung so I ordered a stick of Samsung PC2700 CLT. Now how do I burn this in or will I need to?

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Two 256 MB CTLs will do it. My 512 MB DTL will do 170 mhz at 2-2-2-5-1 (2-2-2-6-1?). My CPU will 'only' do 166 FSB so I'm happy.

The 0221 DTL stick will also do 200 mhz at 2.5-3-3-6-1. You will get better memory scores by running a mem divider and running DDR 180-200 at relaxed settings than 166-170 at CAS2 settings. And your 3D performance will be at least as good or better even if you have to lop 10 mhz off your CPU's FSB.

 

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How do I run a ram divider I don't think I can on my board only options are 100, 133, 166, SMP(or whatever that is)

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I dont know, but I dont think its on any VIA/AMD boards. It's found on P4 chipsets, though, because instead of dividers, what they do is run the memory asynchronously with the system clock, so for PC 2100 on the old 400 FSB they'd do a 3:4 ratio, and on the SiS chipsets, for PC 2700 they'd give a 3:5 ratio, so it'd be 100:133 or 100:166 respectively. You'd reach 200 on the 3:4 by running an FSB of 150, or an FSB of 120 with a 3:5 ratio

 

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Yeah, the PentiumIV SIS and Intel 845 boards use the memory divider. Not sure about the Athlon boards. Doesn't the 8KHA+ offer it with a hacked BIOS? Maybe it was just the ability to run the ram up to 200 mhz.