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Considering the HyperX PC4000

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SocceRich20

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Hello all,

I have an Abit IS7, and 2.8C, and Kingston PC2700 ValueRAM. The 512MB PC4000 HyperX looks really good, and I am considering buying this. Right now I have my Processor at 3.5Ghz, without rasing the cpu voltage. My current ram wont allow the Game Acceleration thing, it won't boot with any type of setting, Street Racer, F1, and whatever. My question is, is this a good upgrade? I can sell my old ram to a kid at school for about $120. By the way, I also have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, so RAM seems like the only thing in my machine that isn't super high performance. Thanks in advance.
 
The Game Acceleration thing is for running aggresive memory settings like timings is it not? Well PC4000 has horrible timings.

Do yourself a favor and buy 1GB of Mushkin PC3200 or PC3500 lvl 1 instead. It will run 2-3-2-5. I just got a dual pack for $203 off newegg. I saw its up to $218 now which still isn't bad at all for one gigabyte.
 
Do yourself a favor and buy 1GB of Mushkin PC3200 or PC3500 lvl 1 instead. It will run 2-3-2-5
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Benchies show that 5:4 tight timings is faster than 1:1 loose timings
 
Its all about the FSB speed as far as overall performance goes. If you use a divider you can get the same FSB and higher then what you'll get with PC4000 1:1 and you'll be able to run the timings very tight.
 
Hyperx4000 at 1:1 and loose timings will return 5-10% better scores in sandra memory benchmarks than PC3500 with tighter timings.

The real question is how much of a difference does it make in applications like games.

The answer, none really.

Figuring you can get 512MB sticks of HyperX4000 from bestbuy for $100 after MIR and the fact I have 4 sticks of the stuff myself, you are better off with PC4000.
 
The higher the speed you run your memory the more chance there is of it causing errors. MaximumPC did a review on RAM last month and said their SiSoft scores went up 3% with tighter timings.

For the most part PC3200 and PC3500 is always cheaper then PC4000 except in the Best Buy case scenario.

If your getting 3-5% better frame rates in games because of running tight timings and you say it doesn't make a difference in reality in games then you might as well say it dosn't make a difference in games if you go buy an A64 instead of a Pentium 4 for gaming because most of the time the A64 only wins by a mere 1-10 FPS at the most lol.

In actuality you are right though and you probably wont notice a real difference at all but benchmarks will.
 
Honestly, I would definitely say go for the HyperX 4000. Intel CPU's are notorious for benefitting from better bandwidth and frequencies over tighter timings, due to the fact that their multipliers are locked, so the front side bus is the only overclockable feature.

If you had an AMD system, I'd suggest you go for Corsair XMS series with tight timings.

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