aggressive ram timing, or ocing fsb, which is better?

[franklinz]

which ones better and why??
im asking because i was told that the ram that i bought (twin pack xms PC-3200LL) has too much of an aggressive timing to get a good overclock with the canterwood mobos.
so is the timing more important than the actually overclocking the fsb??

also, whats newegg's policy on returning unopened ram, for an exchange??
thanks,
franklinz

[shady06]

i dont know much about the canterwood but as far as i know, you need low speed timing, aggressive ram to overclock

[Richard Cranium]

O/Cing RAM is slightly beneficial, o/cing the FSB will make the machine very responsive.

Make SURE not to o/c the PCI Bus beyond 33mhz[stock] maybe 34mhz, this will overclock your hard drives and they don't like it much..

Check w/Newegg on return policy.

[shady06]

i thought it was better the synchronize the fsb and ram in ocing?

[Xtreeme]

The best speed is from synchronis config. With agresive mem timings. I saw benches (dont have link but search) that showed a lower cas-with faster timings (ras tas) is a larger increase in speed than a higher fsb. Cause it reduces mem latency which is the real bottle neck not the fsb bandwidth. On p4 though it may be dif. cause of the high mem bandwidth vampires they are. Im refering to the nforce2 tests concerning mem timings. With any dual ddr paltform though you have tons of bandwidth so I think its the same platform to platform in that respect. The nforce2 proves that a little is gaind by more mem bandwidth (dual) -but not tons. Though cas 2 vs. 2.5 is def. noticable. Im babling now---------