Ram overclocking bandwidth question

[Ciggarilo Himself]

when overclocking my ram and changing my timings is max bandwidth what i am looking for? also can clockgen change clocks individualy pci etc?

thanks.

Also I have two sticks of ram a 512 and a 256 should i put the biggest one in the first slot it is currently in the second slot if so what does this actualy do?

Also which timings matter most for ram overclocking and do i put them higher or lower
(3 to 4 or 4 to 3 etc)

 

[Boyo]

Lot of questions in one post. In DDR, lower latencies are better than higher. Although when you overclock, you need to lossen those settings sometimes, but it won't put too much of a hit on your system.

It's also best to use memeory modules that are dual. I'm not really sure how well mixing the RAM will be. Maybe someone could help with that. But I would put the 512MB in the first two DIMM slots.

I have never used clockgen. I believe you are better off OCing your rig through BIOS.

 

[Ciggarilo Himself]

Thanks.

 

[ghost6303]

if that is the only ram you have available, i would use the single 512 stick. when adding a 256 stick to that you will only get another 256mb of storage, there will be no performance increase sence these are not matched sticks, let alone not equal sizes. you may even see a performance DECREASE when using the 2 sticks together as opposed to using one or the other because of the extra thinking the computer will have to do to remember it can store 66% of information in one DIMM and 33% in the other, and if they are different brands, timings, voltages, speeds etc, that will furthur reduce performance. quit being cheap and buy some ram! 2X 512mb sticks of something decent arent that expensive. spend 70-100 bucks and you will be much happier. Kingston makes a cheap decent ram in their 'value select series', dont go with a brand that sounds like it was taken off a cerial box like "All Components" or "SimpleTech" remember most of the time you get what you pay for.

 

[Ciggarilo Himself]

I probably will but where I live (New Zealand,the real land of the free) Ram prices are quite Gay($180 for a 512 stick of some asstastic pc2700 with next to no overclocking ability).