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ECH said:
ECH said:is that better, worst or the same as the Hynix used now? For example what is the latency difference?
The IC's that I am reading are the K4U52324QE-BC06.
The IC's you posted are GDDR3. K4J52324QE
BossBorot said:Is ATi ever going to switch to the BC06 from the BC09 talk of it happening is going around? This would be a quite nice speed bump where BC06 = 0.6ns BC09 = 0.9ns, 1.6ghz would be nice The current K4U52324QE-BC09 is the lowest binned speed for the K4U52324QE-BC0x series where x ranges from 6-9 with the lower numbers being faster.
ViperJohn said:No on the 2900's. What would be the point??? You only need so much memory bandwidth at
a given GPU speed and using higher speed chips, 16 of them no less, would only increase the
card cost. That would be drastic with the BC06 chips as they are low yield and expensive as
hell compared to the 09's or 08's.
I got 1197Mhz clean out of the BC09's modded and the memory appeared to be capping on the
GPU's memory controllers (or the PCB's trace layout) ability to OC and not the chips themselves.
Viper
MarcusTaz said:Hello all, my first post and I am so stoked I found this thread...
ViperJohn you seem so knowledgable on this subject and I hope you can help me make my mind up...
I currently have the Diamond 2900 xt 512mb version. But I have it sold if I choose. My question is, is the Sapphire 1gb currently on sale @ newegg worth the extra money? Someone there posted about the different memory chips and I could find no info until I actually searched for the "Samsung memory IC: K4U52324QE BC09 " in google and found this thread...
And I qoute from newegg:
"Other Thoughts: Please be advised there appears to be 2 versions of this video card. 1 comes with Samsung memory IC: K4U52324QE BC09 which is 1.1GHz @ 2.2Gbps. The other is Samsung memory IC: K4U52324QE BC06 which is 1.6GHz @ 3.2Gbps. According to Samsung Press release dated June 28, 2007. I (and assume others) would like to buy this card using the "better" ram. So any information from users who purchased the card or others would be appricated. "
Anyway this made me apprehensive to say the least but it sounds like you really understand your hardware. You are saying that they will not put the BC06 on this card and if so the question again is does the 1GB version really have that much over the 512mb version...
Thanks in advance for the great informative thread...
MarcusTaz said:Thanks a bunch man for the explanation. Can you tell me if you think the 1GB version is worth it over the 512? I know it may sound like a silly question but looking at some of the benchmarks, I do not see a sustantial huge increase in FPS. Help me make up my mind if you would please .
Thanks!
MarcusTaz said:Ok I understand. I will be upgrading, but for now I am sticking with this setup till the Phenom procs are out.. Unless Intel really does cut prices bigtime on 7/22, then I will consider their quad core quite possibly...
So you would say the 1GB card is worth the money....
MarcusTaz said:Ok, well I think I am going to make the switch.. The Q6600 is on sale @ frys for 299.99 boxed chip. Now the question is, should I go with the 975x chipset for future crossfire or the 965x. I want to go with an Asus board so I was looking at the newer Commando 965x or the ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP975X. Also I am considering the Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 modules Model BL2KIT12864AA804.
ViperJohn can you give me your professional opinion which Mobo would suite me best for a crossfire rig in the future?
Thank again...