god damn...
six months ago I bought 2*256 mb of pc3700 to run with my p4 and I always complained it would only run its 233 mhz stock setting at cas 3 3-3-7.

I just switched my ages old (about one year) pc3200 corsair from the workrig in the gamerig...
It boots at 233 cas 2 2-2-5 no probs...
crap
why the hell did I ever buy this pc3700 again?


another question...
with memory that can do cas 2 2-2-2-5 at 233, on an abit ic7max, can you turn that game accelerator on?
my pc3700 never allowed that...


and another thing... is 3.1 vdimm a danger in a well ventilated case (case temp never goes above 22 and there's 120 mms pushing cold air over the ram area)

i would say no, not realy, but i think it's not healthy to run that for a long time ( like a year )

One year ago Corsair PC3200 XMS was equipped with BH-6 and PC3500 with BH-5. No wonder it works better.

Whether 3.1vdimm is dangerous depends on which chips you are using. Winbond BH-5 / 6 seems not to mind 3.2vdimm for a very, very long time (+1 year). Other chips might break after weeks...

so, if I get it right, everybody is going to buy 2*512 mb modules now for current and future games... but there ain't any of those around that can do nice tight timings... on the other hand, lots of sites claim that cas 2 and 2.5 on an athy64 are equivalent, so that's out of the equation...and piotke is checking all the other timings elsewhere :)

testing is done, I just don't have any slow ram at home :)

well, are the differences substantial or minimal?

hold on to your panties, as usual :p
slow memory coming Piotke's way soon

To answer that, I have to use some very smart words...

I'm cheap.

we're talking about timing on an A64 platform (Nfoce3 150/250 or K8t800/K8t880)

:)