Corsair XMS Cas Problem

Blue Cypher · 9 May 2006 at 08:51

Hello everyone, I have got an asus A8N 32 Delux mobo and corsair XMS 3200Cpro latency 2-3-3-6. My motherboard is set to auto detect and its picking up the RAM as cas3 rather than cas2 which it should be, I can manually change the settings but was concerned as whethe to leave it or change it to cas2?

Does anyone have any experience with this problem?

Thx in advance

Jimbo Mahoney · 9 May 2006 at 18:29

I've often found SPD to pick up slacker timings than the rated speed.

Just run them at their rated speed and give them a quick test. If they don't work, send them back.

Dutch Guy · 10 May 2006 at 10:15

Maybe the sticks are handpicked and able to run tighter timings than the SPD info, manually set them to what they are rated for and test.

squiffy · 10 May 2006 at 13:14

My XMS3200 C2 is the same, reports as CAS 3, so manually changed it. Although I'm overclocking the CPU so had to use CAS 2.5

Blue Cypher · 11 May 2006 at 09:04

did manually change it, benchmarked it on 3dmark 06 set as auto, and then again manual (auto= cas 3 , manualy= cas2) and found no difference.

Dutch Guy · 11 May 2006 at 09:26

Blue Cypher said:
did manually change it, benchmarked it on 3dmark 06 set as auto, and then again manual (auto= cas 3 , manualy= cas2) and found no difference.

That is because 3DMark'06 is videocard limited and not memoryspeed limited.