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LL or CS2?

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notoriousformula

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hey all, i'm goin to buy some good Corsair ram for my AMD2500+/ ABIT NF7-S setup..whats the diff. between LL and CS2 ram? which one is better and why?

thanks :)
 
LL is low latency and C2 is the general ram from what i gather i have c2 and it runs 400mhz at 2-2-2-6. If you want good timings though you should really go with mushkin. they are even more cost effective than corsair.
 
I think CS2 just means CAS 2, and it's not just limited to BH-5 chips. The Ch-5 chips used in a lot of RAM today can also do CAS 2 speeds, and the BH-6 chips that Mushkin will use can do it too.

I suggest Mushkin if you will OC, but be quick, supplies are low.
 
Level one uses CH-5 chips, which can only do 2-3-2-6 timings at best. The Level II uses the vastly superior BH-5 chips, which can do 2-2-2-6 timings.
 
Holy Christ, a couple of the people who responded to this have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

To answer your question, the difference between LL and CAS2 has nothing to do with timings: they both can run the same timings. The difference is that LL is programmed to run at those speeds, whereas you must set the CAS2 memory to those speeds in the BIOS. The default SPD timing for regular CAS2 memory is CAS2.5 I believe.
 
Originally posted by finalgt
Holy Christ, a couple of the people who responded to this have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

To answer your question, the difference between LL and CAS2 has nothing to do with timings: they both can run the same timings. The difference is that LL is programmed to run at those speeds, whereas you must set the CAS2 memory to those speeds in the BIOS. The default SPD timing for regular CAS2 memory is CAS2.5 I believe.
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Correct :).

Its up to the chips what latency its going to run. If they have CH-5 they will run 2-3-2-5. If they have BH-4, Bh-5, BH-6, then they will run 2-2-2-5. If they have Hynix they will run alot looser timings. I think their optimal setting is like 3-4-4-8 and you can run them a little tighter then that maybe.

Geil and Samsung make their own chips.

LL and CAS2 is nothing but marketing hype. If they dont have the right chips they wont be any better then the cheaper.
 
Originally posted by emorphien
That's what I thought, although they advertise it as 2-3-3-6.
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Thats their default set timings. You have to manually adjust it in BIOS. I guess they set them looser then what they can run in order to promote better stability. The PCB has effect on how well they will run those timings especially with overclocking also.
 
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