Djembeplay said:
I have 768 MB right now. Do you think my system would perform better and faster with less ram but with cas2 instead of 2.5? I.E. Would it be wise to send my 768 back and buy 512 of corsair cas2? BTW, how did you know my CPU runs hot? It runs around 65C. Is that hot?
Well, there are plenty of reviews around like
www.tomsharware.com about your CPU.
And 60 degrees C is not the end of the world. I design semiconductor chips and we
are required by the industry ot make them work from -45 degrees C to 150 degrees C.
But not sure about CPU's, I guess they should be stable up to 80 degrees?
Also in that website, they specifically said they were unable to get the Corsair 2.0 CAS
latency to work in 2.0 CAS mode (meanig 2.5 was ok) on the ASUS A7V333 mother.
Here is the link to that article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020220/kt333-20.html
So you should get another brand memory like Infineon or just go to the website that Valiant
recommended. I truly believe 512MB of 2.0 CAS will outperform
your 768MB of 2.5 CAS. (Feel free to help me out on this one people.) But you paid extra money
to get PC2700 memory over PC2100. You also paid extra to get a motherboard with the KT333
chipset over the KT266. Why go through that trouble and use memory that will yield you the same
performance as someone who bought PC2100 memory with 2.0 CAS (which cost less) and a motherboard
with the KT266 chipset? But if you are obsessed with the idea of having more RAM (don't we all), then just send
the CAS 2.5 memory back and get 768MB of CAS 2.0 memory. It shout cost about $15-20 more for the upgrade.
But that depends on when you bought the memory. Meory prices hvae wnet up a bit since I bought mine about a
month ago.