gskill hz4000 or zx3200?

Does that change things?
From my, very limited, understanding of a64's, timings are more important than bandwidth at stock. Once the chip is overclocked it is able to take more advantage of the extra bandwidth. So the hz would be better at 260x10 or would I be better running a divider and lower timings? e.g 260 at 166 divider to give 216 hopefully close to 2,3,2,5

I take it the zx will do more than 200 with slightly slacked timings so for 2.6 I would be looking at 236x11. Would this be roughly the same as the hz at 260x10.
 
ZX in my view. You are right in thinking that the timings are more important. When I had my ZX kit, it ran memtest stable up to 219mhz @ 2-3-2-5 so it *should* hit 216mhz. This would be better than running 260mhz @ 3-4-4-8.
 
The ZX have the same chips as the expensive OCZ PC4000 EB, personally i'd go for them as they "should" do 250fsb at 3-3-2-8 timings.

Like anything in overclocking, not everything is guaranteed.
 
Y'know, I've got 2 x 1g PQI pc3200 currently running at 210mhz @ 2.5-3-3-7-1t @ 2.6v, and it'll do 217mhz @ the same timings. I was thinking of replacing this with some gskill pc4000, but I don't think I'll bother now, seems to perform really well considering I only payed £120 for it a while ago,comparing it to the gskill for £152 plus p&p. It makes me wonder what this memory will do if I slacken the timings a bit.
 
Just got my ZX and they are working a charm, checked with CPUZ though and noticed that the "Bank Cycle Time (Trc)" was set at 12 clocks whereas the screenshots from the G.Skill site had it at 7? Is this a PC specific thing and best left at 12 or should I force it to 7 in the BIOS?

Thanks
 
You have it set in BIOS. DFI's have their own 'auto' settings usually preloaded with the BIOS and not set at [auto] which defaults to the RAM settings so you can easily adjust that in BIOS.
 
Yeah I know, just checking if it was a good idea or not since AUTO set it to 12, OK have forced it to 7 now, all seems fine
 
Mine was on 8 with auto - changed mine to 7 also. . .

Anyone reading this, is your system stable using 2.6 DDR Volts using the 3200ZX? mine is only stable at 2.7 DDR Volts. (Asked in another topic but no reply) :confused:
 
Nelly said:
Anyone reading this, is your system stable using 2.6 DDR Volts using the 3200ZX? mine is only stable at 2.7 DDR Volts. (Asked in another topic but no reply) :confused:
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Yep rock solid at 2 3 2 5 207Mhz 2.6v (2.63v actual - DFI overvolts slightly)
 
Funnily enough I tried this ram 1st of all in my old A8V-Deluxe it still wasnt stable at 2.8v with ram on slack timings.
 
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