memory settings ?

[xanthan]

Greetings, i dont know much about memory and would like some advice please.

i have 2 128mb sticks of pc133 ram from micron, they run at cas 3 up to 133 and cas 2 up to 100. in my bios i can set the memory at 100 or 133. is it better to run the memory at 133 cas 3 or 100 cas 2 ?

system is a duron 900 running at 105x9.5, MB is a az11e. because of this aweful MB i cant get my fsb past 105 :(

thanks for any advice you can give :)

Xan

[Valid]

You can probably push it to 105 at CAS2. 105 at CAS2 would probably be superior to 133CAS3.

[Valid]

At any rate. Try both! Download the latest version of SiSoft's Sandra Benchmarking utilities. (You can probably get them on Pinky's FTP site, though I haven't checked it thoroughly). Check each setting and see what gets you more memory bandwidth. :)

[Placid]

While memory is rated for certain speeds its often possible to run the memory at lower timings than rated.
You will just have to try but I think 133 cas 2 would be very possible.

[DAppel]

Originally posted by Valid
At any rate. Try both! Download the latest version of SiSoft's Sandra Benchmarking utilities. (You can probably get them on Pinky's FTP site, though I haven't checked it thoroughly). Check each setting and see what gets you more memory bandwidth. :)

Sandra 2001 is available at Pinky´s FTP. There are also the new Dets and CpuIdle. It´s a great resource place and we should all thank Pinky for that !

Thanks Pinky !

[Baboo]

As Valid says, get SiSoft and run a memory benchmark with both settings.

I reckon that you'll be better running 133/3 rather than 100/2. The CAS does affect the performance slightly, but not as much as oc'ing the fsb by 33%. The CAS only really affects the access speed, not overall performance.

Play with the settings and check with SiSoft.