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Offline Balsy

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New puter for Dad ?? on RAM
« on: December 28, 2005, 09:25:04 AM »
PC4000 versus PC3200 on a 1000FSB system?

What is the difference.  I can get PC3200 DDR400 with CAS2 latency.

Or PC4000 with CAS 2.5.

Any techno geeks help me out with which is better and why?

System:

1  Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
Model #: P180

1  ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
1  BFG Tech BFGW68256GTOCXV Geforce 6800GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Model #: BFGW68256GTOCXV
 
1  Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 EPS12V ATX12V 550W Power Supply - Retail
Model #: TP2-550 EPS12V

1  AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA4000BNBOX - Retail
Model #: ADA4000BNBOX

1  CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model Twinx2048-3200c2 - Retail
Model #: Twinx2048-3200c2

3  Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6V320F0 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Model #: 6V320F0

1  Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350 8 (7.1) Channels PCI Interface Sound Card - OEM
Model #: 30SB035000000

Offline JTs

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New puter for Dad ?? on RAM
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2005, 12:40:04 PM »
go here and read this it explains memory settings in easy to understand terms (not to much techno babble). read AN501

http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/tech_notes.html