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Subject: Re: A64 3000+ 90nm overclock
Name:
Dunedain
Date: 12/15/2004 12:08:35 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 24.3.236.123
In Reply to: Re: A64 3000+ 90nm overclock posted by
JC
Message:
Oh ok, they must have changed the XMS latency settings to 2,2,2 later on then.
Because that's what all the XMS low latency RAM is set at now. Also, since
it is a 256 meg DIMM, it might overclock better than the 512 meg DIMM's I have.
But you need plenty of memory if you want to play DOOM III at max speed,
so 1 gig is mandatory. 
Yeah, I guess I could lower the multiplier and then see if the memory would
go even higher, enough to overcome the gaming performance hit that running
the TRCD at 3 is causing. But I don't know how much higher the clock rate
would have to go on the RAM to do that. I bet it's quite a bit, though.
Which just goes to reinforce what I've been saying for a long time.
High latency is evil for 3D gaming. High clock rates are useless for games, if
it means paying a significant price in latency. Which is why DDR2 is garbage.
What we need is DDR RAM that will run at higher clock rates while still
holding the latency at 2,2,2.
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