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- Jun 19, 2002
I know back in the day with the Athlon XPs and P4s you ideally wanted your memory running synchronously with the system's FSB (1:1), however with Athlon 64s that no longer was the case and running on a divider didn't inherently cost you in performance. I'm most likely going to be switching over to C2D so I'm curious about whether they are affected by synch/asynch when I determine my memory choice. From all the benches and reviews I've looked at over the last few months it would seem like it isn't important, but just asking to be sure.
For gaming it would seem like the best option would be to just get some good valued 2x2GB sticks and run them at whatever frequency they top out at (likely 800-1000MHz). Am I right? There doesn't seem to be any point in spending a lot of $$ on sticks that would do higher frequencies or better timings since for games there isn't a real-world performance advantage.
Also, while I'm asking, is RAM compatability much of an issue with boards on the P35 chipset? At this point I see myself just getting whatever 4GB kit that happens to be priced well at the time I buy.
For gaming it would seem like the best option would be to just get some good valued 2x2GB sticks and run them at whatever frequency they top out at (likely 800-1000MHz). Am I right? There doesn't seem to be any point in spending a lot of $$ on sticks that would do higher frequencies or better timings since for games there isn't a real-world performance advantage.
Also, while I'm asking, is RAM compatability much of an issue with boards on the P35 chipset? At this point I see myself just getting whatever 4GB kit that happens to be priced well at the time I buy.