OCZ Gold 2GB kit of 3200 or 4000

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Which of the 2 OCZ Gold kits would be better for me. I've got a AMD 3700 San Diego chip than I currently have lighly overclocked with a FSB of 220. I may for benchmarking etc go up to FSB of 250+. I wondered what the thoughts were at which would be the better option for a 2 GB set of Ram of these 2. The 3200 has tighter latency which the Athlon chips thrive on although it would likely have to go on a 333 divider when clocked to the higher levels. The 4000 has looser latency but needs no divider. I am currently running a 1GB pairing of 512 Corsair C2PT ram at 2.5,3,3,6 on 1t. Am I likely to see much improvement on either of these set ups? My GPU is the X1900XT and motherboard the Asus premium. Playing games like Oblivion at mo.

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Stuart
 
They are probably both exactly the same sets of chips, but just speed binned (better quality chips go into PC4000 batch). They'll perform exactly the same, but I'd go for the PC4000 as they'll be made up from the better chips.

Don't worry too much about the divider, with AMD you're always on a divider so push the CPU and then try for tight timings. Just don't expect really low timings on 2GB when overclocking.
 
G Skill 3200 ZX

Having read the back log of threads it seems with the AMD64 architecture the use of a divider is not as detrimental as loose latency ram esp. if dropping from Cas2 to Cas3.

Having then considered this then at the moment the G Skill ZX 3200 2GB kit with its low latencies would be a better bet than both the above OCZ gold's and of the OCZ Golds the 3200 would be the better bet.

Right???

Stuart
 
Basically, just buy the lowest latency kit you can find (OCZ PC3200 Platinums are good) and just slap a divider on it. It has been proven that a divider doesn't affect performance.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Guides/athlon64oc/4.html

What have these tests proven? They've proven that overclocking your K8 system while using a memory divider to keep that cheaper DDR RAM within spec is nothing to be ashamed of. We saw quite healthy gains in all departments, including memory bandwidth, merely by raising the CPU clock even though we kept the memory at ~200 MHz at all times. I repeat: You are not a weenie if you use a memory divider. :-)
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I was in the same predicament, I've actually sent back my OCZ PC4000 Platinum, will be ordering some OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K) (MY-057-OC) on friday & using a Divider once I aquire a dual core cpu 2-3-2-5 all the way!!! :cool: - I had already sold my G.Skill PC3200 to a freind but only losing £10 on them so not bothered! :)
 
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Like I said, it shouldn't really matter. The main difference between PC4000 and PC3200 is PC4000 probably has the better chips and that PC4000 probably has an SPD tab for PC4000. You'd find you could reach the same latencies with a PC4000 kit @ PC3200 aswell as a standard PC3200 kit. If you can afford it, go for PC4000 but since there's not much difference between them it's comes down to whatever you can afford.
 
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