Corsair Memory Issue

Saikor

Saikor

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A while back a purchased a new 512 stick of corsair ram (cmx512-3200c2) to fill up the empty slot in my Asus K8V, hoping the 1.5 gig of ram would help run BF2.

The 2*512 I already had in there was the CMX512-3200LL twinx bundle which are DDR400 CAS2. The new ram I thought I bought was also DDR400 CAS2. Anyway, I tried and tried and the only way I could get the new stick to be CAS2 is to drop it down to DDR333, or alternatively I could run it at DDR400 speeds but only at cas2.5. Eventually I took it out of my pc and err...forgot to get a refund.

My question, would it be better to have 1.5 gig CAS2.5 or 1gig CAS2?
 
Saikor said:
A while back a purchased a new 512 stick of corsair ram (cmx512-3200c2) to fill up the empty slot in my Asus K8V, hoping the 1.5 gig of ram would help run BF2.

The 2*512 I already had in there was the CMX512-3200LL twinx bundle which are DDR400 CAS2. The new ram I thought I bought was also DDR400 CAS2. Anyway, I tried and tried and the only way I could get the new stick to be CAS2 is to drop it down to DDR333, or alternatively I could run it at DDR400 speeds but only at cas2.5. Eventually I took it out of my pc and err...forgot to get a refund.

My question, would it be better to have 1.5 gig CAS2.5 or 1gig CAS2?
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1.5Gigs at CAS2.5 DDR400 will be best for you if you're gaming, the reason you're having difficulties is that the A64 memory controller struggles with more than 2 double sided memory sticks.
 
Since I flashed my bios, I am having trouble getting it to run at CAS2.5 @ DDR400. Instead it seems to like running CAS2 @ DDR333. Would you still think this drop in speed is worth the extra 512?
 
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