is there a big difference between cas 4 and cas 5?

magick · 27 Jun 2007 at 16:03

Is there much of a real world difference between speeds CAS 4-4-4-12 and CAS 5-5-5-15? And does the performace difference justify the difference in price?

magick · 27 Jun 2007 at 16:50

Ok thanks i'll go Corsair 5-5-5-15 800mhz then as it's £20 cheaper. Incidently CPU will be a c2d E6320.

magick · 28 Jun 2007 at 03:09

helmutcheese said:
And the slacker the timings the worst, It will be bigger gap from 5 to 4 then from 3 to 4.

So where does that leave DDR3 with timings of 7-7-7-21 and 9-9-9-27 and nearly 3 times the cost?

magick · 29 Jun 2007 at 10:58

well what's the difference between them? all I can see is the same speed as higher end ddr2 but with a higher latency.

magick · 2 Jul 2007 at 12:07

Thanks for the replys. And james thanks for the DDR3 explanation!