Which Group?

[HooliganGuerrilla]

I've got two groups of RAM (made by pqi)...one is 1gb x 2, the other 512mb x 2.

I just bought an Opteron 165 and I'm getting my system ready to overclock, so I want to check my RAM timings...and I was confused on what I was getting...can you tell me which is the better group to use (and no, I'm not going to tell you which is the 2gb kit...that would be too easy). I have no idea if higher is better...Also, can i force the two groups to match speed? Thanks for your help!

#1 200mhz
3-4-4-8

#2 200mhz
3-3-3-8

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

lower (tighter) timings at a given mhz is always faster.. assuming same capacity..

if you run all 4 sticks, the faster will automatically run at the slower set's speed.

 

[HooliganGuerrilla]

crud...that's my 512 group that's faster...oh well...the numbers arent that good anyway.

thanks for the help.

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

think of it this way...

how much faster is ram than a hard drive? as soon as you start doing things that want more than just 1gb of memory, you're gonna take a HUGE performance hit.. while 2gb won't