The P4G8x (Granite Bay) will do CL 1.5... will the A7N8X ever?

cruc1fy · Jan 10, 2003

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/asus_p4g8x_e7205_review/images/10.JPG

Do you tihnk that with future bios iterations ASUS will bring the cas latency options to the AMD boards?

TC · Jan 10, 2003

Kid of a moot point since there isn't any ram that will do that.

SickBoy · Jan 10, 2003

Well, maybe you could run CAS 1.5 with, like, PC3200 RAM only running on 100 MHz FSB. Doesn't make much sense.

cruc1fy · Jan 10, 2003

TC said:
Kid of a moot point since there isn't any ram that will do that.

at firingsquad.com they ran Corsair XMS at 1.5 and it was stable.

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/asus_p4g8x_e7205_review/page3.asp
The P4G8X offers plenty of overclocking potential, to be sure. Using incremental front side bus adjustments, we managed a 153MHz front side bus effectively running at 612MHz. The result was 3.52GHz from our 3.06GHz processor operating at 1.7V. We also ran 1.7V AGP and 2.7V DDR in order to run our memory at the same CAS 1.5 setting used for our other benchmarks

TC · Jan 10, 2003

That's at 153fsb - which is reaching the upper end of a fsb overclock for current P4's. With most people wanting to run 200+ on AMD boards running cas 1.5 is not likely any time soon.

TheGame240 · Jan 11, 2003

Considering how little difference there is between running ram at 2.5 and 2.0, would it really matter if you could run your ram at 1.5 (50pts in Sandra doesn't matter)?

Cowboy X · Jan 11, 2003

The Asus granite Bay board will also set you back >$250 !!!!

TC · Jan 11, 2003

Yeah plus it's not really worth it because once you overclock it a little you've got more bandwidth than the P4 can make use of. Heh - why are we discussing this in the AMD section anyway?

Chris1980 · Jan 17, 2003

cruc1fy said:
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/asus_p4g8x_e7205_review/images/10.JPG

Do you tihnk that with future bios iterations ASUS will bring the cas latency options to the AMD boards?

As far as I know the Granite Bay only supports (officially) PC2100 RAM. Will it so ever support faster RAM? ;-)

Cowboy X · Jan 17, 2003

It only officially supports 2100 , thankfully 2100 is very cheap . But you can use faster grades of memory such as 2700 or 3200 . Initially they will only run at 2100 speeds but the board seems to be quite overclockable and that's where the increased mem speed will come in . Problem is that two identical sticks of Cas2 2700 or 3200 aren't cheap and this board already costs >$250 .

The Granite Bay boards just ain'it worth it right now .

TC · Jan 19, 2003

cruc1fy said:
at firingsquad.com they ran Corsair XMS at 1.5 and it was stable.

I just tried one stick of XMS 3500 and another stick of 3200 on my Albatron PX845PE Pro II and neither will make it into windows at cas 1.5 even with 2.8 volts and relaxed timings at 100FSB. Something smells funny about their claim that it's possible at 153. Notice how they don't give any other details aside from voltage.

OC Noob · Jan 19, 2003

Later boards will offer dual DDR @ PC2700 and PC3200 speeds.

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