How important are mem timings in a C2D system?

Participant · 18 Mar 2007 at 14:54

Hi all. Just trying to decide whether to shell out £125 for a DDR2 mem kit with timings 5-5-5-12 or £150 for a kit with 4-4-4-12. Is it really worth the extra timings, especially when I can probably overclock the slower memory to higher speeds? Thanks.

pastymuncher · 18 Mar 2007 at 15:12

Get some Geil Ultra PC2 6400 4-4-4-12 at £117 from here.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL

Cracking stuff. I have some and it's very good. Even cheaper than your CL5 stuff too.

Oddw1re · 18 Mar 2007 at 20:27

pastymuncher said:
Get some Geil Ultra PC2 6400 4-4-4-12 at £117 from here.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL

Cracking stuff. I have some and it's very good. Even cheaper than your CL5 stuff too.

Ye i agree with you there

smsmasters · 18 Mar 2007 at 20:30

I just bought those, I hope it will be cracking

Darg · 18 Mar 2007 at 23:45

Works sweet for me though I have the memory speed set lower then stock due to my mobo. Set on 4-4-4-10 though and perfectly stable. The only reason I can't push my sticks higher is because of the motherboard only actually supporting 666mhz speeds.