sorry couldn't find where else to post this, anyway i've been looking at some new ram and my board (a7n8x) supports duel channel ram or cl=2 or whatever but the ram i was looking at is cl=2.5 will this still take advantage of the duel channel?
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cl2.5 will work jusr fine and is in fact pretty much the standard for DDR. The duel channel feature is part of the mobo and works best with 2 identical sticks of ram installed (if you want 512mb, use 2 256 sticks). The Corsair ram company has recently begun marketing their TwinX ram packs that have 2 sticks of their high performance XMS series ram bundled together that have been tested as a pair. The XMS series ram is cl2. This is a timing setting that offers a performance boost (for a price). The marketing for the TwinX ram has been aimed squarely at mobos with the Nforce2 chipset which is probably where you ran into a ref for cl2. Whether to spend the extra money is up to you.
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Originally posted by GamingSniperis the extra money worth it speed wise, i mean is there a nice speed enhancment in spending the money?
...also chances are very good that CL2 ram will OC higher than CL2.5 ram at comparable timings.
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at first i did n't know what ram i was buying but being pointed to the twin xms series caught my attention, so I don't quite know yet at this point i'd say it will be twin xms but looks like i have a bit more research to do.
Also to add on what would you guys suggest getting, is it worth it to go for 1024(512x2) or is 512(256x2) sufficient enough, things i will be running are numerous games (cs, bf1942 mainly) and a little bit of graphics 3dsmax not heavily though..just asking for someones 2cents on this thanks ahead of time:wave:
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In my opinion, 512mb is plenty for running common apps, usually even several at a time. It is also enough for any game right now (and you only run those 1 at a time). More ram can help with rendering, but really only if you mate it with heavy cpu horsepower. In sum, I guess 512 would probably be adequite, but 1gb wouldn't be overkill for your purposes either.
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