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will this Kingston HyperX DDR500 outperform my Corsair XMS DDR400?

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Benzie500E

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Jan 29, 2004
Hey guys, ok, i don't know if any of you guys saw the best buy sales ad for this week, but they have the following ram in it:

Manufacturer: Kingston
Speed: DDR500(PC4000)
Type: 184 Pin DDR SDRAM
Error Checking: Non-ECC
Registered/Unbuffered: Unbuffered
Cas Latency: 3-4-4-8-1T
Support Voltage: 2.6V
Bandwidth: 4.0GB/s
Organization: two 64M x 64 -Bit
Warranty: Lifetime

for $119 a stick.

Meanwhile, I bought my Corsair ram for about $119 a stick also, which is:

Manufacturer: Corsair
Speed: DDR400(PC3200)
Type: 184 Pin DDR SDRAM
Error Checking: Non-ECC
Registered/Unbuffered: Unbuffered
Cas Latency: 2-3-2-6
Support Voltage: 2.6V
Bandwidth: 3.2GB/s
Organization: 64M x 64 -Bit
Special Features: with Platinum-Silver Heat Spreader
Warranty: Lifetime

Since both are the same price...which one will perform better, and most importantly, allow me to overclock better with a 1:1 ratio? I noticed the latency's are higher on the Kingston, so thats where i'm getting thrown off. Which will perform better, should I sell my Corsair and snatch up this kingston ram?
 
it depends on what kind of chips are in each, how fast the cpu will run- and the mb. for example if the pc3200 is bh5/6 capable of running 2-2-2-5 at 230-240 fsb and the pc4000 has some picked over bt-d43 that wont oc much over 250, then the pc3200 wins. conversely if the pc3200 has ch5 chips that dont run as well as bh5/6 and the corsair has some later rev bt-d43 or d5 chips that will crank like maxvla's wonder stick then thats the way to go.. its a hard choice without testing or knowing what the chips are..
 
is there a way of telling which chips are in each?

also, now that i have my comp overclocked by raising the FSB, my ram is no longer in dual channel, its in single channel, is this what happens when you overclock?
 
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