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Ram Timings or FSB??????

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IceCoolJay

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Mar 29, 2004
Hi, I want to know if its better to run my Computer @ 250 FSB using 2.5-4-3-6 Timings or run more relaxed timings of 3-4-4-7 to get 256 FSB?. I ran some benchmarks and it most say that running the higher 256 FSB is better, but they're just benchmarks. I was wondering what would be the better option in real performance...Since its only a small increase of FSB i was leaning towards 250FSB with 2.5-4-3-6 timings...What do you think?
 
Those timings are pretty darn relaxed, I would probably go for the better timings but if you tried a good number of beinchmarks and thye all showed one to be a little better I would probably go with that. If I were you I would try timings like 2.5-3-3-9/11 if you can. The last one can be really high with little to no preformance lost and it will usually give you a little more stablility.

If you want to understand exactly what timings and FSB will do you can read the incredibly in-depth stickies in this section:D
 
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