Worth upgrading to not run a divider?

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When I was in the market for a 2 gigabyte kit, there weren't any PC3500 or PC4000 memories available. Now there are a couple for ~$275

To achieve my OC I have to run a 5:6 divider so my RAM is running at DDR-190. I also have to run 3-3-3-8 at 2T which is kind of annoying. I was wondering what kind of performance benefits I could expect from upgrading to faster sticks and running 1:1. Are there any sites that have shown a comparison between divided vs. 1:1 OCed performance? And is it worth upgrading to achieve this benefit?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
Running a divider does not hurt performance at all. I wouldn't waste your money.
 
meh, 2T to 1T is worth maybe 1-3% more overall performance, at most. bring the memory clock up would be able 1% or so. the divider itself does shit due to the way the K8's memory controller is set up. it's all about the final clock speeds of the cpu and ram (the latter of which is way less important), not howyou get there.

also, the 2T thing... is probably a limitation of the damned asus board. i'd go off on a rant here, but know that i'm beginning to hate asus.
 
I'm beginning to hate my Asus A8N-E. I'm OC'ed to 2.7 with no issue, havn't tried to go higher. But I can't get the system to boot with my HZ clocked above 200MHz. This is DDR500 mind you. Running a hella divider right now that has it around 189 or something on a 270 FTT. May be a RAM problem, I haven't gotten into it much yet. At this point though, I'm blaming the board because of the other RAM issues I've heard of with Asus boards.
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
also, the 2T thing... is probably a limitation of the damned asus board. i'd go off on a rant here, but know that i'm beginning to hate asus.
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yes, my DFI UT NF4 Ultra-D ran these sticks 1T no problem. I can't even run stock HTT at 1T without getting all sorts of weird issues.

From what everyone is saying, I guess I'll just leave it alone then :)
 
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