MSI GeForceFX 5900XT to 5900?

[Sworkhard]

Originally Posted by Fahim

By loosing the memory latency, you'll get a chance to overclock a little more. The overclocked frequency is enough to overcome tight memory latency + some more performance. Although Daneel is right, memory is not the bottleneck of FX 59xx Series. My MSI GeForce FX 5900XT (390,700) is almost as fast as my ABIT FX 5900 (400,850). You can only need to do volt mod and throttling.

I found the opposite to be true. Whit default fx 5900xt timings with the memory at 763 vs the slackest ones with the memory at 835, i found that i had 150 more 3dmark03s with the tighter timings. This was mirrored in some other benchmarks I had. with 5900nu timings I may have been able to find the best compromise and get some more performance, but I didn't try that. It's been a while since I've benched with the different settings (same bios, just modded) so I can't give you the exact scores anymore, but using too loose of timings is not useful.

[Fahim]

You are right also. Some apps just don't care abt latencies and some don't care abt higher clocks.

[Daneel Olivaw]

Originally Posted by Sworkhard

I found the opposite to be true. Whit default fx 5900xt timings with the memory at 763 vs the slackest ones with the memory at 835, i found that i had 150 more 3dmark03s with the tighter timings. This was mirrored in some other benchmarks I had. with 5900nu timings I may have been able to find the best compromise and get some more performance, but I didn't try that. It's been a while since I've benched with the different settings (same bios, just modded) so I can't give you the exact scores anymore, but using too loose of timings is not useful.

Though I agree with you, if find that latency vs clocks is an unsolvable battle