Timings/speed, don't understand, neither does my cat

ubersonic · 6 Dec 2012 at 10:45

I'm looking at getting the Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) kit and it says that in house testing it did the following (Not Guaranteed):

- 1600MHz (7-8-8-24 1N) @ 1.40v
- 1866MHz (9-9-9-27 1N) @ 1.40v
- 2000MHz (9-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v
- 2133MHz (10-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v
- 2400MHz (11-11-11-28 2N) @ 1.50v

That looks cool but I don't know what it means (I have tried to read up on it but I got confused so gave up and started playing chase the laser with my cat). I have an X79 chipset so would be running quad channel and my CPU is a 3930K @ 4GHz but I have no idea if I want lower timings or more speed, both sound nice.

Which setting would be best? (and if you can dumb it down, why?)

4T5 · 6 Dec 2012 at 10:49

The Mhz = The higher the number the faster the ram will work.
The numbers in brackets are the timings that need to be set in Bios.
The 1.40v style numbers are the volts needed to acheive said speed.

Is that simple enough for you or to simple ?

Yaayuh! · 6 Dec 2012 at 11:39

MHZ over timings every time. Lower timings can help yes, but your first goal should be highest frequency then tighten the timings.

passey89 · 6 Dec 2012 at 12:07

wat improvement wud 1600mhz cl9 changed to 2133mhz cl11 do?

ubersonic · 6 Dec 2012 at 13:55

4T5 said:
The Mhz = The higher the number the faster the ram will work.
The numbers in brackets are the timings that need to be set in Bios.
The 1.40v style numbers are the volts needed to acheive said speed.

Is that simple enough for you or to simple ?

Lol, thanks

but I get that much what im having difficulty with is working out the "this speed at this latency gives this performance & this better speed at worse latency gives this performance, and the best one is:... etc"

Rossi~ said:
MHZ over timings every time. Lower timings can help yes, but your first goal should be highest frequency then tighten the timings.

Okies, thank you