Latency vs speed in gaming performance

ULTRAGAMER · 06-17-2009, 07:31 PM

I HAVE AMD 64 VENICE 3000+ @ TO 3800 SPEEDS (2.4), 1 GIGA CORSAIR XMS DDR 400 WITH 2-2-2-5 TIMINGS, THE QUESTION IS? IS BETTER TO HAVE THE MEMORY IN LOW LATENCY (STOCK) OR OVERCLOCK IT TO (533mhz) 2.5-4-4-7,( IT WORKS IN THIS SPEED, FULLY TESTED), WHICH IS BETTER FOR GAMING PERFORMANCE

Phædrus2401 · 06-17-2009, 08:41 PM

YOU COULD TRY HITTING CAPSLOCK. THAT MIGHT HELP.

Memory speed really does very little for performance. Having faster memory or lower latency memory will have barely any noticeable effect in games. The lower latency takes up less power, so go with that.

But here's an analogy. Your CPU is like a car wash, and your RAM is like a parking lot. The faster your car wash is, the better since you get more cars washed, but having a faster (more easily navigable?) parking lot only has a little bit of effect. You just want a parking lot that can hold as many cars as you'll need and that can deliver cars as fast as the car wash can take them. You get what I'm saying? You just need RAM that's big [i]enough[i] and fast enough to feed your CPU, which you have. So there's no need to overclock.

**greenbrucelee** · 06-18-2009, 01:40 AM

What he said ^

or you could use the man in the box anaolgy. you have one man in a box being passed an instruction which is fine but that man has to process the instruction then carry it out but if you have two men in the box then one can process it whilst the other carries it out.

The instruction comes from ram the processing and carruing out is your cpu. Hence overclocking the cpu can be a good thing if done properly but overclocking the ram has little effect as the ram can only pass an instruction at a time so if your ram is big neough to hold instructions then you don't really need to mess with it. Only changing the frequency within its limits may be required when overclocking but not going over that frequency.

**linderman** · 06-22-2009, 05:33 PM

watch your resource meter when doing something intensive ............ which one get completely 100% used most often and for the longest duration ......... thats the component that needs help

06-17-2009, 07:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
ULTRAGAMER Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1 OS: windows xp	Latency vs speed in gaming performance I HAVE AMD 64 VENICE 3000+ @ TO 3800 SPEEDS (2.4), 1 GIGA CORSAIR XMS DDR 400 WITH 2-2-2-5 TIMINGS, THE QUESTION IS? IS BETTER TO HAVE THE MEMORY IN LOW LATENCY (STOCK) OR OVERCLOCK IT TO (533mhz) 2.5-4-4-7,( IT WORKS IN THIS SPEED, FULLY TESTED), WHICH IS BETTER FOR GAMING PERFORMANCE

06-17-2009, 08:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Phædrus2401 Hardware Tech Team Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New Orleans Posts: 3,832 OS: Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 + Ubuntu 9.04 My System	Re: Latency vs speed in gaming performance YOU COULD TRY HITTING CAPSLOCK. THAT MIGHT HELP. Memory speed really does very little for performance. Having faster memory or lower latency memory will have barely any noticeable effect in games. The lower latency takes up less power, so go with that. But here's an analogy. Your CPU is like a car wash, and your RAM is like a parking lot. The faster your car wash is, the better since you get more cars washed, but having a faster (more easily navigable?) parking lot only has a little bit of effect. You just want a parking lot that can hold as many cars as you'll need and that can deliver cars as fast as the car wash can take them. You get what I'm saying? You just need RAM that's big [i]enough[i] and fast enough to feed your CPU, which you have. So there's no need to overclock. Last edited by Phædrus2401; 06-17-2009 at 08:42 PM.

06-18-2009, 01:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
greenbrucelee Mentor Hardware team Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,865 OS: XP SP3 My System	Re: Latency vs speed in gaming performance What he said ^ or you could use the man in the box anaolgy. you have one man in a box being passed an instruction which is fine but that man has to process the instruction then carry it out but if you have two men in the box then one can process it whilst the other carries it out. The instruction comes from ram the processing and carruing out is your cpu. Hence overclocking the cpu can be a good thing if done properly but overclocking the ram has little effect as the ram can only pass an instruction at a time so if your ram is big neough to hold instructions then you don't really need to mess with it. Only changing the frequency within its limits may be required when overclocking but not going over that frequency. __________________ Microsoft certified professional, Network +, A+ certified Last edited by greenbrucelee; 06-18-2009 at 01:41 AM.

06-22-2009, 05:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,440 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Latency vs speed in gaming performance watch your resource meter when doing something intensive ............ which one get completely 100% used most often and for the longest duration ......... thats the component that needs help __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial