Im just curious, has anyone ever pushed their DDR2 RAM to 1333?

Also is it better to have, say, 1200 and latencies of 5-5-5-15 or 1600 and 6-6-6-18?

I know that was short but i have nothing else to really say.

I would say having RAM running at 1600MHz with the timings of 6-6-6-18 would be faster. RAM timings are very, very overrated. It's such an insignificant specification, really, when you compare the performance differences. Yet, everyone is so concerned with them.

It is reported that there are some applications where lower RAM timings would be more beneficial, but seriously, like what Zenosincks said, running your RAM at 1600mhz and higher timings would be much better.

Btw, I won't be able to tell you in what situations that would be better. I just read it somewhere, and there's that. Don't quote me on that.

About pusing the RAM to that speeds, I think I might have surpassed it. I haven't quite got to 1600mhz, but I think I've got 1540 or thereabouts (slightly lower if I recall).

However, I throttled it back somewhat, I can't remember why. Probably because it wasn't 100% stable.

thats what i used to think until i kept reading people complaining about latencies and preffering DDR 2 over DDR 3 because of it. But that helped


WOA!! is this DDR2? were did you buy?