Valiue Ram timings

[YellowJeep39157]

My friends computer has some lag to it. I dont know what are the timings but what are good timings for value ram?? Any help would be great. :)
Thanks
Anthony

[(cf)Eclipse]

lag = spyware or improper drivers
and you need to give us more detail, what kind of ram, what speed is it running at, what are the timings now?

[BillLeeLee]

Lag could also be attributed to many other things: slow CPU, lack of RAM causing hard disk paging to be used extensively, etc., but yes, we do need more info.

(if it's an old Celeron chip, then boom, there's your answer :D )

[YellowJeep39157]

He got a biostar MB, Some cheap ram, timings 7-3-3-2.5, 2800+ cpu socket A, 120gb hdd

[(cf)Eclipse]

those timings aren't going to adversely effect performance too much, especially on an athlon-xp board. though it might help to add more? but i suppose we don't know how much there is yet ;)

[zandor]

Slow ram timings alone won't cause lag. They may reduce the res & AA/AF settings you can use in a game a wee little bit and lower benchmark scores, but truely slow-ass ram shouldn't make the Windows desktop lag. That's bad software generally, or maybe a really serious ram shortage (XP on 128 anyone?).
I've got a P3-700 w/ 256MB of SDRAM I'm rehabbing for a relative sitting here, and it didn't "lag" in Win2k even before I upgraded the proc from a Celeron 400. That was w/ a fresh Windows install & no spyware/garbage on the system of course. Chances are a week after they get it back it'll have Gator running on it and be all laggy, but it's not now.