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Title: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: SkyWolf on February 23, 2005, 04:00:31 PM

Still working on putting together parts for the socket 939 machine I may build. I might wuss out and build a cheaper 754. Anyway.... I don't seem to see any DDR2 PC3200 Ram with a Cas Latency of less than 3? OR is it so fast that it's a "who cares" kind of thing? :confused:

Woof

Title: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: Kev367th on February 23, 2005, 04:12:53 PM

If your building an AMD system you don't use DDR2.
You use standard DDR, one of the reasons AMD is going straight from DDR to DDR3 is the horrible latencies of DDR2.

Title: Re: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: whels on February 23, 2005, 06:46:19 PM

Quote

Originally posted by SkyWolf
Still working on putting together parts for the socket 939 machine I may build. I might wuss out and build a cheaper 754. Anyway.... I don't seem to see any DDR2 PC3200 Ram with a Cas Latency of less than 3? OR is it so fast that it's a "who cares" kind of thing? :confused:

Woof

yea 939s need DDR.
these 2 links below are probably the best Ram going right now.

Mushkin
http://www.mushkin.com/epages/Mushkin.storefront/421d22d4022d69182740c0a8010205de/Product/View/991018

Crucial
http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=BL6464Z402&cat=RAM


Whels

P.S.
Kev my BFG 6800 Ultra 256 PCI-E arrived today :P

Title: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: SkyWolf on February 23, 2005, 10:17:47 PM

Ok..thanks for the heads up. I guess I got confused by the Dual Data Rate DDR bit. I could have sworn I saw DDR2. Course I'm old, fat, and married so WTF do I know.

Any idea when the DDR3 will popup? There is just never a good time to upgrade. Always something that will change in a couple of months.

Woof

Title: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: FOGOLD on February 24, 2005, 01:51:18 AM

Get Cas 2 if you can.  However, turn of all your benchmarking suites and Frame Rate counters and I defy anyone to notice any real world difference :rolleyes:

Title: Ddr2 Pc3200
Post by: eagl on February 24, 2005, 04:00:59 PM

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=20-145-440&DEPA=0

DDR 3200 CAS2.5, 2x512 meg sticks for cheap.  Special price just for you today only my friend.