5punk

I haven't done 06 yet, as my pc goes slow as fuck on the CPU tests on 05 as it is

3dMark03 = 13565
3dMark05 = 5577

Lower is better.

This kinda covers it.

will try to find a proper enthusiast guide.


edit:

http://arstechnica.com/paedia/r/ram_gui ... rt2-1.html

http://www.cooltechzone.com/index.php?o ... 7&Itemid=0

Dog Pants wrote:I still don't understand. What do the numbers mean? How does it relate to the Corsair DDR that has latencies with lots of 2s in?

Wiki's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_latency

Latency Vs Bandwidth

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory ... ide_4.html

Cheers! I always just stuck the cheapest RAM I could get in there not thinking it made a major difference.

Extropolating from the graphs in the second link of bobbins post the most important seems to be the speed in Mhz, then the latency timings, with even 6-6-6 memory scoring equavalently or better than 3-3-3 of the next speed down.

This confuses me, as that would mean my new RAM which is 9136 (1142MHz) 5-5-5-15 would compare favourbly with 8888 (1111Mhz) 4-4-4-12, yet the latter is nearly £100 more expensive.

I'm not concerned if it does or doesn't, I just bought the best I could afford before insane price leaps, and it will be damn fast whatever.

Just for the shits and the giggles:

FatherJack wrote:Extropolating from the graphs in the second link of bobbins post the most important seems to be the speed in Mhz, then the latency timings, with even 6-6-6 memory scoring equavalently or better than 3-3-3 of the next speed down.

This confuses me, as that would mean my new RAM which is 9136 (1142MHz) 5-5-5-15 would compare favourbly with 8888 (1111Mhz) 4-4-4-12, yet the latter is nearly £100 more expensive.

I'm not concerned if it does or doesn't, I just bought the best I could afford before insane price leaps, and it will be damn fast whatever.

Don't forget that just because you buy 1142MHz RAM, it does not necessarily mean it is actually running at 1142MHz. As for why the slower RAM is more, well that's marketing for you.

Lateralus wrote:
3DMark06: 2567
SM2.0: 1114
HDR/SM3.0: 1011
CPU: 862

Overall, its about a two-thirds increase on scores which is pretty good for £60 of spending, in my reckoning. Now to start scrimping for the 8800.

Well, 8800 successfully scrimped for, bought and installed. New scores are as follows:

3DMark06: 6806
SM2.0: 3768
HDR/SM3.0: 3814
CPU: 1048

Overall: Fucking result. Now to find time for more PC gaming!