Gskill Ram came today!! Results inside!

[OCForums_Osirus]

Ok, Well I decided to order up some Gskill PC4400(DDR550) 2.5-4-4-8, PC3200 2-2-2-5 1GB Kit in light to have 1GB Ram, and somewhat better performance.
Well my testing of the ram went Great!
Currently at 2.6ghz, on 1.55 vcore with the HTT set to 289, I decided to try out how high I can get this to run at 1:1. Well as of right now, Im running 1:1 on my system with a HTT of 289, and a Memory mhz of 289. With the Timings of 3-4-8-4 1T. So I ran Sandra memory bandwidth, and hit 7519/7457 with a 81% Efficency. This is compaired to 2.6ghz with a divider of 5:6 - which yelded 6523/6459 with 91% efficency.

So I would have to say I am VERY pleased with this ram so far. What ram do you know of that can hit 289fsb with a 1:1 divider?

Screenshot follows
http://sevenlabs.net/a64/2.6_memory_TCCD.jpg

[Woodelf]

What kind of performance increase in games have you achieved over 2-2-2-5 timing ?.

[Riptide]

Nice bandwidth. :thumbsup:

That GSKill is no joke, fer sure. My OCZ 3200EL is good up to 260 @ 2.5-3-3-8 but unfortunately my CPU won't do 2,600MHz. :(

[OCForums_Osirus]

I havent tried to run my ram at 2-2-2-5, as it will run at PC3200 speeds. I need to run at PC4400 speeds and higher, since my CPU has a multi of 9x. So its a little harder to achive such high HTT.

Bandwidth wise is insane, at 2.7ghz, with a 5:6 divider, I can barely get over 7GB.

Game wise, its MUCH better, my games dont lag at all anymore, which I know is because I have jumped from 512mb to 1gb.

[|JuiceZ|]

Thx for the post, sweet :cool2:

[Woodelf]

I havent tried to run my ram at 2-2-2-5, as it will run at PC3200 speeds. I need to run at PC4400 speeds and higher, since my CPU has a multi of 9x. So its a little harder to achive such high HTT.

Bandwidth wise is insane, at 2.7ghz, with a 5:6 divider, I can barely get over 7GB.

Game wise, its MUCH better, my games dont lag at all anymore, which I know is because I have jumped from 512mb to 1gb.

I thought that lower latencies were better for the Athlon 64's. I don't have one yet, so I really don't know. What's the sweet spot for the 64's, is it the highest HTT while remaining at 1T, or just highest HTT no matter what ?. I was planning in using my corsair at 2225, but now I don't know.
I won't be upgrading untill the nforce4 boards are well out though.

[saturnotaku]

I thought that lower latencies were better for the Athlon 64's. I don't have one yet, so I really don't know. What's the sweet spot for the 64's, is it the highest HTT while remaining at 1T

I've linked to this review before. It provides a lot of good information.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2226

[bkswaney]

WOW... Nice bandwidth.
Man AMD is kicking intels ass with the
new dual channel memory bus.
Intel use to own memory bandwidth but
not anymore.

[OCForums_Osirus]

Thanks, thats VERY close to FX-55 marks on Bandwidth
Your right about AMD owning Intel in Dual Channel performance, I had a 3.0E at 3.75 and got barely 6.5GB in sandra.

[Woodelf]

I've linked to this review before. It provides a lot of good information.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2226
Great, thanks. It look's like a good article.

[Woodelf]

I've linked to this review before. It provides a lot of good information.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2226

Well I guess my assumtion was right about the 1T/high HTT. Looks like I have another thing to buy for My next system.

[OCForums_Osirus]

Well the difference in Game's and normal working conditions, the difference in 1T and 2T is not noticable, but when it comes to benchmarks and stuff, yeah there is a difference.
I just played Farcry for 1 hour, with settings set to max, at a res of 1280x1024 at 1T and 2T, you cant tell one bit of differnece.

However, on Sandra the difference with 1T and 2T is around 500mb-750mb.
All at the current speed of my system, as listed above in the screenshot.

[OCForums_Osirus]

Ok, and for those who want to know all there is about A64 CPU's and Chipsets, and Motherboards, here is a colaboration about it, in 2 flavors, .pdf and .php
CAUTION - THE PDF FILE IS 89 PAGES. - http://sevenlabs.net/a64/a64_collection.pdf
CAUTION - THE PHP FILE IS 200KB in size. - http://sevenlabs.net/a64/a64_collection.php

[Pimp!]

how much voltage you putting to the ram? just wanna see how it compares to my pdp 3200 xbl @ same speeds

[OCForums_Osirus]

Ram voltage is 2.85. Which is my board limit.